CVE-2013-4592: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.9; 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 2013-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.