CVE-2012-2121 (GCVE-0-2012-2121)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-17 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
VLAI?
Summary
The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.4 does not properly manage the relationships between memory slots and the iommu, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory leak and host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS to conduct hotunplug and hotplug operations on devices.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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