| Name | CVE-2010-2938 |
| Description | arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmcs.c in the virtual-machine control structure (VMCS) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when an Intel platform without Extended Page Tables (EPT) functionality is used, accesses VMCS fields without verifying hardware support for these fields, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by requesting a VMCS dump for a fully virtualized Xen guest. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xen (PTS) | bullseye | 4.14.6-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.20.0+68-g35cb38b222-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.0.1-1 | | | |
Notes
- linux-2.6 <not-affected> (affected code not present in any of the released kernels; only affects xen package itself)
probably fixed well before this version, but this is the one i checked and its fixed