Security Advisory

CVE-2010-2938

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-10-08 20:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 02:55:45

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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