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)  
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