SB2010112901 - Denial of service in Linux Kernel
Published: November 29, 2010
Security Bulletin ID
SB2010112901
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 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2010-5313)
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.