CVE-2010-5313: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows L2 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (L1 guest OS crash) via a crafted instruction that triggers an L2 emulation failure report, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7842.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.37

Published 2014-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.