CVE-2007-5498

Publication date

2008-05-08 04:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The Xen hypervisor block backend driver for Linux kernel 2.6.18, when running on a 64-bit host with a 32-bit paravirtualized guest, allows local privileged users in the guest OS to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via a request that specifies a large number of blocks.