cvelist/2009/4xxx/CVE-2009-4031.json

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                "value": "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."
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                "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/37720",
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                "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00777.html",
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