CVE-2013-1797

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that triggers use of a guest physical address (GPA) in (1) movable or (2) removable memory during an MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME kvm_set_msr_common operation.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.8.4; 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b79459b482e85cb7426aa7da683a9f2c97aeae1
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0727.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0746.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0928.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1026.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/20/9
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1809-1

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