CVE

Id
41466  
CVE No.
CVE-2009-4031  
Status
Candidate  
Description
The do_insn_fetch function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the x86 emulator in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc8-next-20091125 tries to interpret instructions that contain too many bytes to be valid, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (increased scheduling latency) on the host OS via unspecified manipulations related to SMP support.  
Phase
Assigned (20091120)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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