CVE-2010-4238

medium

Published 2011-01-22 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

The vbd_create function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic) via an attempted access to a virtual CD-ROM device through the blkback driver. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
2.6.18	Not affected	—

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
5	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
citrix	xen	`3.1.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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