CVE-2010-2070: Xensource Xen

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

arch/ia64/xen/faults.c in Xen 3.4 and 4.0 in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other kernel versions, when running on IA-64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service and "turn on BE by modifying the user mask of the PSR," as demonstrated via exploitation of CVE-2006-0742.

Affected products

• Xensource Xen: version 3.4.0 only; version 4.0.0 only

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