CVE-2009-1758

CVE-2009-1758 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The hypervisor_callback function in Xen, possibly before 3.4.0, as applied to the Linux kernel 2.6.30-rc4, 2.6.18, and probably other versions allows guest user applications to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) of the guest OS by triggering a segmentation fault in "certain address ranges."

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