Security restrictions bypass in Linux kernel - CVE-2012-1179
Published: May 17, 2012 / Updated: December 29, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95725
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1179
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
Affected software
Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-lts-backport-oneiric (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-lts-backport-oneiric (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1179
Install update from vendor's repository.
linux (Ubuntu package) - update to 3.0.0-19.33
linux-lts-backport-oneiric (Ubuntu package) - update to 3.0.0-19.33~lucid1
linux-lts-backport-oneiric (Ubuntu package) - update to 3.0.0-19.33~lucid1
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48404
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850