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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-1179

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-1179

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/17/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-ppc64
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-trace
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-xen
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-ppc64
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-trace
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-xen
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ppc64
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ppc64-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ppc64-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-syms
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen-extra
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-ppc64
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-trace
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-xen
  • suse-upgrade-sle-hae-release
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-trace

References

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