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CVE-2010-0435 json

The Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2, and KVM 83, when the Intel VT-x extension is enabled,…

published 2010-08-24 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-0466

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2, and KVM 83, when the Intel VT-x extension is enabled, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via vectors related to instruction emulation.

Patch / fix

  • kvm RHEL 5 VIRTUALIZATION 83-164.el5_5.21
  • kmod-kvm RHEL 5 VIRTUALIZATION 83-164.el5_5.21
  • kvm-tools RHEL 5 VIRTUALIZATION 83-164.el5_5.21
  • kvm-qemu-img RHEL 5 VIRTUALIZATION 83-164.el5_5.21
  • rhev-hypervisor RHEL 5 5.5-2.2.6.1.el5_5rhev2_2
  • rhev-hypervisor-pxe RHEL 5 5.5-2.2.6.1.el5_5rhev2_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0627RHSA-2010:0622

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-0435 updated cvss 4.6

kvm: vmx null pointer dereference

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) kvm 83-164.el5_5.21, kmod-kvm 83-164.el5_5.21, kvm-tools 83-164.el5_5.21, kvm-qemu-img 83-164.el5_5.21 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization (v. 5 server) kvm 83-164.el5_5.21, kmod-kvm 83-164.el5_5.21, kvm-tools 83-164.el5_5.21, kvm-qemu-img 83-164.el5_5.21
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0627
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 5 rhev-hypervisor 5.5-2.2.6.1.el5_5rhev2_2, rhev-hypervisor-pxe 5.5-2.2.6.1.el5_5rhev2_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0622

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.