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CVE-2010-0298
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2010-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-264
Description
The x86 emulator in KVM 83 does not use the Current Privilege Level (CPL) and I/O Privilege Level (IOPL) in determining the memory access available to CPL3 code, which allows 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, a related issue to CVE-2010-0306.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 5.0
- Linux kernel: from 2.6.28 through 2.6.33
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38492
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38158
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559091
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11335
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38492
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38158
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559091
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11335
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