CVE-2010-5313

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2014-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows L2 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (L1 guest OS crash) via a crafted instruction that triggers an L2 emulation failure report, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7842.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.37

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fc3a9157d3148ab91039c75423da8ef97be3e105
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/7
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71363
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163762
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc3a9157d3148ab91039c75423da8ef97be3e105
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fc3a9157d3148ab91039c75423da8ef97be3e105

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