496174 – Kernel: KVM: Crash with ICR write (CVE-2013-6376)

Bug 496174 - Kernel: KVM: Crash with ICR write (CVE-2013-6376)

Summary: Kernel: KVM: Crash with ICR write (CVE-2013-6376)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Kernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Security

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Whiteboard:	[ <3.12.5 ]
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Reported:	2013-12-27 15:00 UTC by GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot
Modified:	2022-03-25 19:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2013-12-27 15:00:21 UTC

CVE-2013-6376 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6376):
  The recalculate_apic_map function in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c in the KVM
  subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.12.5 allows guest OS users to cause
  a denial of service (host OS crash) via a crafted ICR write operation in
  x2apic mode.

Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester

2022-03-25 19:20:51 UTC

In 3.13 onward: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/17d68b763f09a9ce824ae23eb62c9efc57b69271