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.
Published: 2010-08-24
Score: 6.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-0462 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.
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Redhat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Virtualization Kvm Rhel Virtualization
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:45:12.288Z

Reserved: 2010-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-0431

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Status : Modified

Published: 2010-08-24T18:00:38.817

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-0431

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2010-08-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-0431 - Bugzilla

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