CVE-2013-5634 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2013-5634?

CVE-2013-5634 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Sep 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

arch/arm/kvm/arm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 on the ARM platform, when KVM is used, allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, OOPS, and host OS crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by omitting vCPU initialization before a KVM_GET_REG_LIST ioctl call.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5634?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2013-5634?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2013-5634 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5634 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• 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
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-5634, GHSA-8xwg-6qcr-3qm6.