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.

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.

Kernel: llc: information leak via getsockname Kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM - information leak kernel: handling of IPv6 temporary addresses Kernel: information leak in fs/compat_ioctl.c VIDEO_SET_SPU_PALETTE Kernel: tg3: buffer overflow in VPD firmware parsing Kernel: information leak in cdrom driver Kernel: net: information leak in AF_KEY notify kernel: block: passing disk names as format strings Kernel: HID: memory corruption flaw Kernel: HID: zeroplus: heap overflow flaw Kernel: HID: pantherlord: heap overflow flaw Kernel: llc: Fix missing msg_namelen update in llc_ui_recvmsg kernel: ansi_cprng: off by one error in non-block size request Kernel: net: IPv6: panic when UFO=On for an interface kernel: nfs: missing check for buffer length in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached kernel: kvm: memory leak when memory slot is moved with assigned device

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Affected: Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: linux

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.