Vulnerability CVE-2010-0431


Published: 2010-08-24   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
QEMU-KVM, as used in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83, does not properly validate guest QXL driver pointers, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.6/10
10/10
2.7/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise virtualization 
Redhat -> KVM 

 References:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568809
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html

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