Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CVE-2013-1935

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.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.005 (39.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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