CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4238
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-01-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The vbd_create function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic) via an attempted access to a virtual CD-ROM device through the blkback driver. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected configurations
• citrix xen 3.1.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.centos.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=4517 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 secunia.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45795 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html www.vmware.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655623 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64698 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.centos.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=4517 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 secunia.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45795 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html www.vmware.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655623 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64698 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com