VDB-51835 · CVE-2010-0306 · BID 38158

Kvm Qumranet KVM 83 access control

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A vulnerability has been found in Kvm Qumranet KVM 83 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The x86 emulator in KVM 83, when a guest is configured for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), does not use the Current Privilege Level (CPL) and I/O Privilege Level (IOPL) to restrict instruction execution, 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, and replacing an instruction in between emulator entry and instruction fetch, a related issue to CVE-2010-0298.

The weakness was published 02/12/2010 with Red Hat (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at rhn.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2010-0306 since 01/12/2010. Attacking locally is a requirement. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 44427 (CentOS 5 : kvm (CESA-2010:0088)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 155700 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for KVM (ELSA-2010-0088)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (44427). Similar entries are available at 40214, 51836, 51834 and 51833.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
ATT&CK: T1068

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Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 44427
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 : kvm (CESA-2010:0088)
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OpenVAS ID: 840440
OpenVAS Name: Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-947-1
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Advisory: rhn.redhat.com
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2010-0306 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 24830 - Linux Kernel x86 configured for SMP emulator Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 38158 - Linux Kernel KVM Multiple Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 38499 - Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical

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Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 09/02/2021 09:33
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (63), 02/21/2017 08:00 (13), 09/02/2021 09:33 (3)
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