CVE-2013-4592
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (43th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-4449)
- Published
- November 20, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-4449 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
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References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/18/3
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2111-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2112-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2114-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2115-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2116-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031702
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12d6e7538e2d418c08f082b1b44ffa5fb7270ed8(Exploit, Patch)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e40f193f5bb022e927a57a4f5d5194e4f12ddb74(Exploit, Patch)
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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