CVE-2012-1179
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.2EPSS 0.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.6% (49th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1208)
- Published
- May 17, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1208 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48404
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/7
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027084
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803793
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a1d704194a441bf83c636004a479e01360ec850
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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