CVE-2010-2070

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-2070
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-06-16 20:30:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionarch/ia64/xen/faults.c in Xen 3.4 and 4.0 in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other kernel versions, when running on IA-64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service and "turn on BE by modifying the user mask of the PSR," as demonstrated via exploitation of CVE-2006-0742.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xensource Xen 3.4.0 All All All
Application Xensource Xen 4.0.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Xen 'arch/ia64/xen/faults.c' Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
VMSA-2011-0003 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
oss-security - CVE-2010-2070 kernel-xen: ia64-xen: unset be from the task psr af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
VMware ESX Server Multiple Kernel Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
586415 – (CVE-2010-2070) CVE-2010-2070 /kernel/security/CVE-2006-0742 test cause kernel-xen panic on ia64 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
xen-4.0-testing.hg: log af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xenbits.xensource.com
osvdb.org/65541 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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