CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-2938

Published: Oct 08, 2010 | Modified: Oct 10, 2018
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
5.5 MODERATE
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmcs.c in the virtual-machine control structure (VMCS) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when an Intel platform without Extended Page Tables (EPT) functionality is used, accesses VMCS fields without verifying hardware support for these fields, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by requesting a VMCS dump for a fully virtualized Xen guest.

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-0:2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 *
Xen-3.1 Ubuntu hardy *

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