CVE-2007-2455

medium

Description

Parallels allows local users to cause a denial of service (virtual machine abort) via (1) certain INT instructions, as demonstrated by INT 0xAA; (2) an IRET instruction when an invalid address is at the top of the stack; (3) a malformed MOVNTI instruction, as demonstrated by using a register as a destination; or a write operation to (4) SEGR6 or (5) SEGR7.

References

http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf

http://osvdb.org/41167

http://osvdb.org/41166

http://osvdb.org/41165

http://osvdb.org/41164

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-05-02

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00225