CVE-2010-4238 Information

Description

The vbd_create function in Xen 3.1.2 when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is used allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic) via an attempted access to a virtual CD-ROM device through the blkback driver. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Reference

http://bugs.centos.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=4517 http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45795 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655623 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64698