CVE-2010-0431 Information

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.

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568809 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html