CVE-2013-1797 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1797?

CVE-2013-1797 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Mar 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that triggers use of a guest physical address (GPA) in (1) movable or (2) removable memory during an MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME kvm_set_msr_common operation.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1797?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1797?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2013-1797 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1797 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1797, GHSA-3fq7-5q53-mpg7.