CVE-2010-0298

Description

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.

References

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559091

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996

http://secunia.com/advisories/38492

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3