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CVE-2010-0419
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
The x86 emulator in KVM 83, when a guest is configured for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), does not properly restrict writing of segment selectors to segment registers, which might allow guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or gain privileges on the guest OS by leveraging access to a (1) IO port or (2) MMIO region, and replacing an instruction in between emulator entry and instruction fetch..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 4.4/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.4/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Medium
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.4/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:kvm_qumranet:kvm:83:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0126.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38467
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563463
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023663
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56662
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1