CVE-2010-0298 (GCVE-0-2010-0298)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-02-12 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:45
VLAI
Summary
The x86 emulator in KVM 83 does not use the Current Privilege Level (CPL) and I/O Privilege Level (IOPL) in determining the memory access available to CPL3 code, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or gain privileges on the guest OS by leveraging access to a (1) IO port or (2) MMIO region, a related issue to CVE-2010-0306.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 1011 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38158 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559091 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/38492 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2010-02-09 00:00
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