VDB
GHSA-c3h8-f8h6-m66m
GHSA-c3h8-f8h6-m66m
PUBLISHED
CVSS 8.600000381469727 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 2, 2022
Integer overflow in the kvm_dev_ioctl_get_supported_cpuid function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31.4 allows local users to have an unspecified impact via a KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID request to the kvm_arch_dev_ioctl function.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
8.600000381469727
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 2, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3638 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530515 url
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html url
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a54435560efdab1a08f429a954df4d6c740bddf url
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125628917011048&w=2 url
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329 url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36803 url
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53934 url
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6a54435560efdab1a08f429a954df4d6c740bddf url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 url
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3638 url
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125632898507373&w=2 url
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.31.4 url
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc4 url