CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-2070

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2010-06-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-06-16
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

Description

arch/ia64/xen/faults.c in Xen 3.4 and 4.0 in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other kernel versions, when running on IA-64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service and "turn on BE by modifying the user mask of the PSR," as demonstrated via exploitation of CVE-2006-0742.

Affected configurations

• xensource xen 3.4.0 • xensource xen 4.0.0

References