CVE-2010-0431 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2010-0431?

CVE-2010-0431 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 24 Aug 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0431?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Redhat Enterprise Virtualization, Redhat Kvm.

How do I fix CVE-2010-0431?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2010-0431 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-0431 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2015-5201 Auth bypass in Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H) High 7.5
• CVE-2013-2151 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2013-2152 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2013-2176 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2017-2614 Auth bypass in ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-6r53-qvwr-m586.