CVE-2010-0428: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libspice, as used in QEMU-KVM in the Hypervisor (aka rhev-hypervisor) in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 and qspice 0.3.0, does not properly validate guest QXL driver pointers, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and guest OS crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: version 2.2 only
  • Red Hat Qspice: version 0.3.0 only

Published 2010-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.