CVE-2009-1758

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-05-22
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-1132	2009-07-01
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2009-1132	2009-07-01
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2009-1132	2009-07-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-1106	2009-06-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-1106	2009-06-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-1106	2009-06-17