CVE
- Id
- 43003
- CVE No.
- CVE-2010-0419
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- The x86 emulator in KVM 83, when a guest is configured for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), does not properly restrict writing of segment selectors to segment registers, which might allow guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or gain privileges on the guest OS by leveraging access to a (1) IO port or (2) MMIO region, and replacing an instruction in between emulator entry and instruction fetch.
- Phase
- Assigned (20100127)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments