KVM ARM NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

CVE-2013-5634 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:A/AC:H/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

arch/arm/kvm/arm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 on the ARM platform, when KVM is used, allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, OOPS, and host OS crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by omitting vCPU initialization before a KVM_GET_REG_LIST ioctl call.

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