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.
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DSA-1996-1 | New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several vulnerabilities |
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DSA-2010-1 | New kvm packages fix several vulnerabilities |
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EUVD-2010-0329 | 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. |
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USN-947-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T00:45:12.011Z
Reserved: 2010-01-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2010-0298

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2010-02-12T19:30:00.550
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2010-0298


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