CVE-2010-2938 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2938?

CVE-2010-2938 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 Oct 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmcs.c in the virtual-machine control structure (VMCS) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when an Intel platform without Extended Page Tables (EPT) functionality is used, accesses VMCS fields without verifying hardware support for these fields, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by requesting a VMCS dump for a fully virtualized Xen guest.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2938?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2938?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-2938 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2938 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as CVE-2010-3068, DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2938, GHSA-9cjj-33q2-5pjr.