CVE-2009-3638

Description

Integer overflow in the kvm_dev_ioctl_get_supported_cpuid function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31.4 allows local users to have an unspecified impact via a KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID request to the kvm_arch_dev_ioctl function.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53934

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36803

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc4

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.31.4

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a54435560efdab1a08f429a954df4d6c740bddf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3