UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4592

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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4592

Summary:

Details: 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.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4592, https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031702, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/18/3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2066-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2067-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2111-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2112-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2114-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2115-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2116-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4592