CVE-2014-7842
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 30, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 3, 2014
Description
Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2016:0855vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2015:0736vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- 71078vdb-entry
- SUSE-SU-2015:0652vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20141113 CVE-2014-7842 Linux kernel: kvm: reporting emulation failures to userspacemailing-list
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2b9e6c1a35afcc0973acb72e591c714e78885ff
- 62326third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2b9e6c1a35afcc0973acb72e591c714e78885ff
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- SUSE-SU-2015:0481vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0566vendor-advisory
- 62336third-party-advisory
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163762
- 62305third-party-advisory
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