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CVE-2010-2653

Description

From CVE.org

Race condition in the hvc_close function in drivers/char/hvc_console.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by closing a Hypervisor Virtual Console device, related to the hvc_open and hvc_remove functions.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of KVM as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it does not contain the patch that introduced this vulnerability.

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