CVE-2009-1758 Information

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.\

Reference

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-05/msg00561.html http://secunia.com/advisories/35093 http://secunia.com/advisories/35298 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1809 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/14/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34957 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10313