CVE-2010-0298

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.

CVSS v2.0 6.5 MEDIUM

6.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/38492
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996
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
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2010-02-12 19:30

Updated : 2017-09-19 01:30

NVD link : CVE-2010-0298

Mitre link : CVE-2010-0298

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2010-0298

JSON object : View

Products Affected

linux

linux_kernel

CWE

CWE-264

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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