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CVE-2010-0431

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.6 Published: 2010-08-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Enterprise VirtualizationRedhat Kvm

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References