CVE
- Id
- 40725
- CVE No.
- CVE-2009-3290
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- The kvm_emulate_hypercall function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in KVM in the Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc1, and other versions before 2.6.31, when running on x86 systems, does not prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest kernel crash) and read or write guest kernel memory via unspecified "random addresses."
- Phase
- Assigned (20090922)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments