CVE-2010-2070

CVE-2010-2070 · MEDIUM Severity

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

arch/ia64/xen/faults.c in Xen 3.4 and 4.0 in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other kernel versions, when running on IA-64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service and "turn on BE by modifying the user mask of the PSR," as demonstrated via exploitation of CVE-2006-0742.

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