CVE-2009-3290

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CVE-2009-3290

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CVE-2009-3290 at MITRE

Description

The kvm_emulate_hypercall function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in KVM in the Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc1, and other versions before 2.6.31, when running on x86 systems, does not prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest kernel crash) and read or write guest kernel memory via unspecified "random addresses."

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 540247 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 17:03:05 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:49 2022