CVE-2010-0431

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

24/08/2010

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete