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CVE-2009-4004

Published: Nov 20, 2009

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_setup_mce function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via a KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE IOCTL request that specifies a large number of Machine Check Exception (MCE) banks.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc7

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vdb-entry

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a9e38c3e01ad242fe2a625354cf065c34b01e3aa

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vdb-entry

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kernel-kvmvcpuioctl-privilege-escalation(54302)

vdb-entry

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third-party-advisory

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