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CVE-2010-0419

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.4 Published: 2010-03-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Kvm Qumranet Kvm

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References