CVE-2010-0309
Published Feb 12, 2010
Last updated 2 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The pit_ioport_read function in the Programmable Interval Timer (PIT) emulation in i8254.c in KVM 83 does not properly use the pit_state data structure, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash or hang) by attempting to read the /dev/port file.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.8
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-16
Configurations
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