Bug 950490 (CVE-2013-1943)
Summary: | CVE-2013-1943 kernel: kvm: missing check in kvm_set_memory_region() | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Petr Matousek <pmatouse> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | aarcange, abaron, agordeev, anton, aortega, apevec, areis, ayoung, chrisw, dallan, dhoward, drjones, ehabkost, fhrbata, gleb, imammedo, kernel-mgr, knoel, lersek, lwang, lz_yuting, markmc, minovotn, mkenneth, mst, mtosatti, npajkovs, pbonzini, rbryant, rcvalle, rhod, rkhan, sclewis, security-response-team, tgraf, ybabar |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2013-08-24 14:01:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 950496, 950498 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 950502 |
Description
Petr Matousek
2013-04-10 10:47:00 UTC
Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kvm updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 may address this flaw. This issue was addresses in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 via RHSA-2013:0911 (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0911.html). Please note that unlike Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, where a local unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 EUS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 EUS the impact is limited to potential information leak only. This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:0911 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0911.html |