CVE-2012-2137
Buffer overflow in virt/kvm/irq_comm.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI), irq routing entries, and an incorrect check by the setup_routing_entry function before invoking the kvm_set_irq function.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (44th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2137)
- Published
- January 22, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2137 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f2ebd422f71cda9c791f76f85d2ca102ae34a1ed(Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50952(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50961(Broken Link)
- http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/PATCH-Oneiric-CVE-2012-2137-KVM-Fix-buffer-overflow-in-kvm-set-irq-td4990566.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1607-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54063(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1594-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1606-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1609-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816151(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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