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CVE-2009-1758

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-05-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The hypervisor_callback function in Xen, possibly before 3.4.0, as applied to the Linux kernel 2.6.30-rc4, 2.6.18, and probably other versions allows guest user applications to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) of the guest OS by triggering a segmentation fault in "certain address ranges."

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelXen Xen

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References