kernel is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in the Memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) instruction decoder in the Xen hypervisor implementation. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to trick the hypervisor into emulating a certain instruction, which could crash the guest.
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secunia.com/advisories/43315
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www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0398.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/39979
www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html
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bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572971
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11430