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CVE-2010-0435

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0435 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and KVM 83 when Intel VT-x is enabled. A guest OS user can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and crash the host OS through specific instruction emulation vectors. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a medium severity, with a local attack vector, low attack complexity, and a complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
83CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:kvm:83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kvm-0:83-164.el5_5.21
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for RHEL-5Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor-0:5.5-2.2.6.1.el5_5rhev2_2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0435Moderate

kvm: vmx null pointer dereference

Aug 19, 2010

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/42778
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0622.html
PatchVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0627.html
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0012