CVE-2010-0297

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-10-04
Bugzilla:
557025: CVE-2010-0297 kvm-userspace-rhel5: usb-linux.c: fix buffer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in the usb_host_handle_control function in the USB passthrough handling implementation in usb-linux.c in QEMU before 0.11.1 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash or hang) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via a crafted USB packet.

Find out more about CVE-2010-0297 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 5 (rhev-hypervisor) RHSA-2010:0172 2010-03-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization 5 (kvm) RHSA-2010:0088 2010-02-09

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