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CVE-2007-5498

Published: May 08, 2008 | Modified: Sep 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5498
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

The Xen hypervisor block backend driver for Linux kernel 2.6.18, when running on a 64-bit host with a 32-bit paravirtualized guest, allows local privileged users in the guest OS to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via a request that specifies a large number of blocks.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18 (including) 2.6.18 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 *
Linux-source-2.6.22 Ubuntu gutsy *
Xen-3.0 Ubuntu upstream *
Xen-3.1 Ubuntu upstream *
Xen-3.2 Ubuntu upstream *
Xen-3.3 Ubuntu upstream *

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