FKIE_CVE-2009-4031
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-11-29 13:07 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:12
Severity
Summary
The do_insn_fetch function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the x86 emulator in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc8-next-20091125 tries to interpret instructions that contain too many bytes to be valid, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (increased scheduling latency) on the host OS via unspecified manipulations related to SMP support.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.32 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.32 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.32 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.32 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.32 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.32 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.32 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.32 |
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