CVE-2013-5634

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-5634
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-09-25 10:31:29 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionarch/arm/kvm/arm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 on the ARM platform, when KVM is used, allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, OOPS, and host OS crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by omitting vCPU initialization before a KVM_GET_REG_LIST ioctl call.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Adjacent
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.1 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.10 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.2 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.3 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.4 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.5 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.6 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.7 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.8 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9.9 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ARM: KVM: prevent NULL pointer dereferences with KVM VCPU ioctl · torvalds/linux@e8180dc · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch
git.kernel.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
Linux Kernel NULL Pointer Dereference Local Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.10.bz2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kernel.org Patch
oss-security - Re: CVE request: Linux Kernel: ARM: KVM: NULL pointer dereferences af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MITRE git.kernel.org
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