Access Restriction Bypass Affecting kvm-debuginfo package, versions <0:83-105.el5_4.27


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KVMDEBUGINFO-9873085
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed1 Mar 2010

Introduced: 1 Mar 2010

CVE-2010-0419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 kvm-debuginfo to version 0:83-105.el5_4.27 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2010:0126.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kvm-debuginfo package and not the kvm-debuginfo package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

The x86 emulator in KVM 83, when a guest is configured for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), does not properly restrict writing of segment selectors to segment registers, which might allow guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or gain privileges on the guest OS by leveraging access to a (1) IO port or (2) MMIO region, and replacing an instruction in between emulator entry and instruction fetch.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1