Description
Memory leak in the __kvm_set_memory_region function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging certain device access to trigger movement of memory slots.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2115-1 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031702 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2116-1 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2114-1 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2112-1 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2111-1 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1 ↗
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/18/3 ↗