The x86 emulator in KVM 83, when a guest is configured for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), does not properly restrict writing of segment selectors to segment registers, which might allow 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, and replacing an instruction in between emulator entry and instruction fetch.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2010-1 New kvm packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-0450 The x86 emulator in KVM 83, when a guest is configured for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), does not properly restrict writing of segment selectors to segment registers, which might allow 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, and replacing an instruction in between emulator entry and instruction fetch.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-947-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:45:12.281Z

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

Link: CVE-2010-0419

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-03-05T16:30:00.707

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-0419

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-0419 - Bugzilla

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