CVE-2010-0298Medium

Microsoft security update for CVE-2010-0298

Published
September 25, 2020
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products4

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.29.1-5 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.35.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.10.78.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cm1 kernel 5.10.60.1-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 updates

3 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update-
—Security Update5.10.78.1-1
—Security Update6.6.35.1-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2010-0298

EchelonGraph score
6.5 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

The x86 emulator in KVM 83 does not use the Current Privilege Level (CPL) and I/O Privilege Level (IOPL) in determining the memory access available to CPL3 code, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or gain privileges on the guest OS by leveraging access to a (1) IO port or (2) MMIO region, a related issue to CVE-2010-0306.

Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2010-0298, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)