CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-3698
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-11-26
- 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-400
Description
The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly reload the FS and GS segment registers, which allows host OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via a KVM_RUN ioctl call in conjunction with a modified Local Descriptor Table (LDT).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• fedoraproject fedora 13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9581d442b9058d3699b4be568b6e5eae38a41493 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0898.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44500 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3123 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639879 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9581d442b9058d3699b4be568b6e5eae38a41493 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0898.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44500 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3123 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639879 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory