fkie_cve-2012-1179
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2012-05-17 11:00
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * |
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