VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-0431

CVSS score6.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.31%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-08-24
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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 classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references