CVE-2009-4004 (GCVE-0-2009-4004)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-11-20 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 06:45
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Buffer overflow in the kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_setup_mce function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via a KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE IOCTL request that specifies a large number of Machine Check Exception (MCE) banks.
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