CVE-2010-0431

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 2
Modified
Published: 24 Aug 2010, 17:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 00:45

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.6 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.05% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

24 Aug 2010, 17:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 00:45
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.6AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.05%• Percentile: 16%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-20•Improper Input Validation

    The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

Affected Systems

  • redhat•enterprise_virtualization

    2.2

  • redhat•kvm

    83

References (3)