CVE-2013-5634

medium

Published 2013-09-25 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

arch/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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 12 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
3.9.10	Affected	—
3.9.9	Affected	—
3.9.8	Affected	—
3.9.7	Affected	—
3.9.6	Affected	—
3.9.5	Affected	—
3.9.4	Affected	—
3.9.3	Affected	—
3.9.2	Affected	—
3.9.1	Affected	—
3.9.0	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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