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CVE-2010-4255

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4255 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Xen 4.0.1 and earlier, specifically affecting 64-bit paravirtualized environments. A flaw in the fixup_page_fault function allows guest OS users to trigger a host OS crash (BUG_ON) through crafted memory access. With a CVSS score of 6.1, this vulnerability is network-adjacent, low complexity, and results in a complete loss of availability for the host. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.1MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0076 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-238.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4255Moderate

xen: 64-bit PV xen guest can crash host by accessing hypervisor per-domain memory area

Nov 29, 2010

References

lists.xensource.com / archives/html/xen-devel/2010-11/msg01650.html
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/5
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/11/30/8
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/42884
secunia.com / advisories/46397
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html