CVE-2013-1935
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
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.
Find out more about CVE-2013-1935 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Statement
This issue does not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.
This issue does not affect the versions of KVM package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 5.7 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (kernel) | RHSA-2013:0911 | 2013-06-10 |
| RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 (rhev-hypervisor6) | RHSA-2013:0907 | 2013-06-10 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | realtime-kernel | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel | Not affected |
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank IBM for reporting this issue.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation