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CVE-2010-4238
Published: Jan 22, 2011
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://bugs.centos.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=4517
x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655623
x_refsource_CONFIRM
20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
RHSA-2011:0017
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
46397
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
42884
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
45795
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
xen-vdbcreate-dos(64698)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
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