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.
2013-07-16T14:08:49.110
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 5.7 (MEDIUM)
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
5.5
6.9
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
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Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux | 6.0 | Yes |