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USN-1940-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

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USN-1940-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/16/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not check whether kernel addresses are specified during allocation of memory slots for use in a guest's physical address space, which allows local users to gain privileges or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, related to arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-356-ec2

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