CVE-2010-0428

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

libspice, as used in QEMU-KVM in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and qspice 0.3.0, does not properly validate guest QXL driver pointers, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization: 2.2
RedHat Qspice: 0.3.0

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568699
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0633.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568699
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0633.html

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