CVE-2010-0298

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 4
Modified
Published: 12 Feb 2010, 19:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 00:45

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.54% LOW
1% probability -0.07%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Feb 2010, 19:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 00:45
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.54%• Percentile: 68%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    5.0

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≥ 2.6.28, ≤ 2.6.33

References (7)