CVE-2010-0431

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 and KVM 83 - Denial of Service via QXL Driver Pointer Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

QEMU-KVM, as used in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83, does not properly validate guest QXL driver pointers, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568809

Scores

EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 23.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
redhat/enterprise_virtualization 2.2
redhat/kvm 83
Published Aug 24, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026