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CVE-2010-0419
critical
Description
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.
References
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10139
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56662
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563463
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38467