Published: 08/10/2010 Updated: 10/10/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 436

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

arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmcs.c in the virtual-machine control structure (VMCS) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when an Intel platform without Extended Page Tables (EPT) functionality is used, accesses VMCS fields without verifying hardware support for these fields, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by requesting a VMCS dump for a fully virtualized Xen guest.

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Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugsare now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant secur ...

CWE-399 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620490 http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/15911 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0723.html http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113326 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43578 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0723 https://nvd.nist.gov

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