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CVE-2009-4031 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.800000190734863 HIGH

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.

EPSS 2.11% · 84.0th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS v2.0
7.800000190734863
EPSS Score
2.11%
84.0th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
linuxlinux_kernel0, 2.6.32, 2.6.32

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