CVE-2010-0430

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2010-03-30
Bugzilla:
568702: CVE-2010-0430 libspice: Insufficient guest provided memory mappings boundaries validations

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

libspice, as used in QEMU-KVM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H or rhev-hypervisor) before 5.5-2.2 and possibly other products, allows guest OS users to read from or write to arbitrary QEMU memory by modifying the address that is used by Cairo for memory mappings.

Find out more about CVE-2010-0430 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

The CVE-2010-0430 issue was fixed in the kvm packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via RHSA-2010:0271, and fixed in the rhev-hypervisor package via RHSA-2010:0476. This CVE was not disclosed at the time the errata were released; therefore, it was not mentioned in them.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
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-2010:0476 2010-06-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization 5 (kvm) RHSA-2010:0271 2010-03-29

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