CVE-2010-4238 (GCVE-0-2010-4238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-22 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:34
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 982 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2010-09-20 00:00
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