CVE-2009-3290 describes a denial-of-service and memory corruption vulnerability in the KVM hypervisor within the Linux kernel (versions 2.6.25-rc1 to 2.6.31) affecting x86 systems. A local guest OS user can exploit a flaw in the kvm_emulate_hypercall function to access MMU hypercalls from ring 0, leading to a guest kernel crash or unauthorized reading/writing of guest kernel memory at arbitrary addresses. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with low attack complexity, allowing for complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.6.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.6.25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.25:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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