CVE-2007-5498

CVE-2007-5498 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The Xen hypervisor block backend driver for Linux kernel 2.6.18, when running on a 64-bit host with a 32-bit paravirtualized guest, allows local privileged users in the guest OS to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via a request that specifies a large number of blocks.

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