CVE-2013-0311

The translate_desc function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 does not properly handle cross-region descriptors, which allows guest OS users to obtain host OS privileges by leveraging KVM guest OS privileges.

Date published : 2013-02-21

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bd97120fc3d1a11f3124c7c9ba1d91f51829eb85

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.7.bz2