CVE-2012-2137

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

22/01/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in virt/kvm/irq_comm.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI), irq routing entries, and an incorrect check by the setup_routing_entry function before invoking the kvm_set_irq function.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	2.6.33 (including)	3.0.72 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.1 (including)	3.2.24 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.3 (including)	3.4.81 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04::::-:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::-:::

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CVE-2012-2137

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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