fkie_cve-2009-3290
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2009-09-22 10:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
The kvm_emulate_hypercall function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in KVM in the Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc1, and other versions before 2.6.31, when running on x86 systems, does not prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest kernel crash) and read or write guest kernel memory via unspecified "random addresses."
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=07708c4af1346ab1521b26a202f438366b7bcffd
cve@mitre.orghttp://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38926/Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/37105Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/18/1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/21/1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/22/8
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1465.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524124
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11328
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=07708c4af1346ab1521b26a202f438366b7bcffd
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38926/Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/37105Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/18/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/21/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/22/8
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1465.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524124
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11328
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 2.6.25


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