CVE-2010-2784 Privilege escalation in n/a
Guest OS users can cause a denial of service or potentially gain privileges due to improper index selection in QEMU-KVM MMIO initialization.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2010-2784?
CVE-2010-2784 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
The subpage MMIO initialization functionality in the subpage_register function in exec.c in QEMU-KVM, as used in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83, does not properly select the index for access to the callback array, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2784?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Redhat Enterprise Virtualization, Redhat Kvm.
How do I fix CVE-2010-2784?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2010-2784 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2784 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-46g8-g627-3wh5.