[Secure-testing-team] Bug#562075: CVE-2009-4031

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Package: kvm
Severity: serious
Tags: security

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for kvm.

CVE-2009-4031[0]:
| The do_insn_fetch function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the x86
| emulator in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before
| 2.6.32-rc8-next-20091125 tries to interpret instructions that contain
| too many bytes to be valid, which allows guest OS users to cause a
| denial of service (increased scheduling latency) on the host OS via
| unspecified manipulations related to SMP support.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4031
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4031


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