CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. It affects Linux. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2009-4031
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.11%
Linux
Original NVD Description
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.