CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-3290

7.2 HIGH Published 2009-09-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-09-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

The kvm_emulate_hypercall function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in KVM in the Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc1, and other versions before 2.6.31, when running on x86 systems, does not prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest kernel crash) and read or write guest kernel memory via unspecified "random addresses."

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.30) • linux linux kernel 2.6.25

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References