CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5498
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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 configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.18
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30116 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32918 secunia.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0233.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29082 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=369531 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42274 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9452 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30116 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32918 secunia.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0233.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29082 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=369531 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42274 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9452 oval.cisecurity.org