Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 24, 2010· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2010-0431
CVE-2010-0431
Description
QEMU-KVM, as used in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83, does not properly validate guest QXL driver pointers, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
3- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdPatchVendor Advisory
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
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