Bug 296251 (CVE-2007-1366)

Summary: CVE-2007-1366 xen aam instruction crash
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: kreilly, security-response-team, xen-maint
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Description Mark J. Cox 2007-09-19 13:41:41 UTC 
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the aam instruction can be
        abused to crash qemu through a division by zero, resulting in
        denial of service.

public via http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf
also see http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-05/msg00021.html
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2007-09-24 08:43:18 UTC 
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect Xen as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.