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)
- Comments