CVE-2010-0431

medium

Description

QEMU-KVM, as used in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83, does not properly validate guest QXL driver pointers, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568809

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-08-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium