CVE-2012-1179

MediumCVSS 5.2/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmd_none_or_clear_bad function and page faults for huge pages.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.2/10AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
May 17, 2012
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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