CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-0298
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-02-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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 configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.28 <= 2.6.33)
• debian debian linux 5.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38492 Not Applicable
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996 Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38158 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559091 Issue Tracking
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11335 Broken Link
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html Third Party Advisory
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38492 Not Applicable
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996 Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38158 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559091 Issue Tracking
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11335 Broken Link
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html Third Party Advisory
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html Third Party Advisory