CVE-2010-2938 (GCVE-0-2010-2938)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-10-08 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 02:55
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1035 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2010-09-29 00:00
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