Bug 502109 (CVE-2009-1242)
Summary: | CVE-2009-1242 kernel: x86 guest OS can crash the system by writing to the EFER | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Chuck Ebbert <cebbert> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | pmatouse, tcallawa |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1242 | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2012-03-28 08:35:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Chuck Ebbert
2009-05-21 22:26:55 UTC
The bug was introduced in 6aa8b732ca (Dec 10, 2006). This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5 or Red Hat Enterprise MRG. http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1242 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/1606 kernel-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10 kernel-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |