Design/Logic Flaw

The pitioportread function in the Programmable Interval Timer PIT emulation in i8254.c in KVM 83 does not properly use the pitstate data structure, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash or hang by attempting to read the /dev/port file...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor security and bug fix update

An updated rhev-hypervisor package that fixes security issues and several bugs is now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The rhev-hypervisor package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RHEV Hypervisor ISO disk...

Null pointer dereference

The updatecr8intercept function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc1 does not properly handle the absence of an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller APIC, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system...

PT-2009-5912 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.32-rc1 Description: The issue is related to the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel, where the update cr8 intercept function does not properly handle the absence of an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controlle...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: bash-completion-1.0-2.fc10

bash-completion is a collection of shell functions that take advantage of the programmable completion feature of bash 2...