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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2010-3698
Created:November 11, 2010 Updated:August 9, 2011
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

A flaw was found in the way KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) handled the reloading of fs and gs segment registers when they had invalid selectors. A privileged host user with access to "/dev/kvm" could use this flaw to crash the host. (CVE-2010-3698, Moderate)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1187-1 2011-08-09
Ubuntu USN-1081-1 2011-03-02
Ubuntu USN-1074-2 2011-02-28
Ubuntu USN-1074-1 2011-02-25
Ubuntu USN-1073-1 2011-02-25
Ubuntu USN-1072-1 2011-02-25
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:029 2011-02-17
Fedora FEDORA-2010-18983 2010-12-17
CentOS CESA-2010:0898 2010-12-14
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0898-01 2010-12-06
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0842-01 2010-11-10

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