SB2010112901 - Denial of service in Linux Kernel
Published: November 29, 2010
Security Bulletin ID
SB2010112901
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Adjecent network
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2010-5313)
CWE-ID: CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c due to race condition. An adjacent attacker can submit a specially crafted instruction, trigger an L2 emulation failure report and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.