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CVE-2010-0298

Published: Feb 12, 2010 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.9 IMPORTANT
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0298
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

The x86 emulator in KVM 83 does not use the Current Privilege Level (CPL) and I/O Privilege Level (IOPL) in determining the memory access available to CPL3 code, which allows 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, a related issue to CVE-2010-0306.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Linux_kernelLinux2.6.28 (including)2.6.33 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatkvm-0:83-105.el5_4.22*
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for RHEL-5RedHatrhev-hypervisor-0:5.4-2.1.8.el5_4rhev2_1*
KvmUbuntuhardy*
KvmUbuntuintrepid*
KvmUbuntujaunty*
KvmUbuntuupstream*
LinuxUbuntuhardy*
LinuxUbuntuintrepid*
LinuxUbuntujaunty*
LinuxUbuntukarmic*
LinuxUbuntulucid*
LinuxUbuntuupstream*
Linux-ec2Ubuntukarmic*
Linux-ec2Ubuntulucid*
Linux-ec2Ubuntumaverick*
Linux-ec2Ubuntuupstream*
Linux-fsl-imx51Ubuntukarmic*
Linux-fsl-imx51Ubuntulucid*
Linux-lts-backport-maverickUbuntuupstream*
Linux-mvl-doveUbuntukarmic*
Linux-mvl-doveUbuntulucid*

References

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