CVE-2013-4127: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the vhost_net_set_backend function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS and system crash) via vectors involving powering on a virtual machine.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.10.3; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-07-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.