CVE-2009-3290

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The kvm_emulate_hypercall function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in KVM in the Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc1, and other versions before 2.6.31, when running on x86 systems, does not prevent access to MMU hypercalls from ring 0, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest kernel crash) and read or write guest kernel memory via unspecified "random addresses."

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.30; 2.6.25-rc1

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=07708c4af1346ab1521b26a202f438366b7bcffd
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38926/
http://secunia.com/advisories/37105
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/18/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/21/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/22/8
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1465.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524124
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11328
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=07708c4af1346ab1521b26a202f438366b7bcffd
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38926/

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