PT-2009-5603 · Linux+1 · Linux Kernel+1

Eugene Teo · Published 2009-09-22 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2009-3290

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.31

Description The issue allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service, specifically a guest kernel crash, and read or write guest kernel memory via random addresses, due to the kvm emulate hypercall function not preventing access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0 when running on x86 systems.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.31, update to version 2.6.31 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3290

DSA-1907-1

DSA-1915-1

DTSA-203-1

RHSA-2009:1465

RHSA-2009_1465

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

References · 13

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3290 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37105 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1465.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38926 · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/22/8 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1465 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11328 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524124 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/21/1 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3290 · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=07708c4af1346ab1521b26a202f438366b7bcffd · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/18/1 · Note