CVE-2010-0431 (GCVE-0-2010-0431)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-08-24 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
QEMU-KVM, as used in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83, does not properly validate guest QXL driver pointers, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
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|---|---|
| https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568809 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
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