CVE-2013-1935

CVE-2013-1935 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:A/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

A certain Red Hat patch to the KVM subsystem in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly implement the PV EOI feature, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging a time window during which interrupts are disabled but copy_to_user function calls are possible.

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