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CVE-2010-0431

• 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

QEMU-KVM, as used in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83, 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 Kvm: 83

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568809
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568809
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html

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