CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2938
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-10-08
- 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
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 configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.18
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 secunia.com
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113326 support.avaya.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0723.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43578 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html www.vmware.com
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/15911 xenbits.xensource.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620490 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 secunia.com
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113326 support.avaya.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0723.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43578 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html www.vmware.com
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/15911 xenbits.xensource.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620490 bugzilla.redhat.com