CVE-2010-0298 | BDVDB-2026-40324 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38158
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559091
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11335
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38492
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.