CVE-2014-8480
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 10, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 24, 2014
Description
The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 lacks intended decoder-table flags for certain RIP-relative instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted application.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156615
- 70710vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20141023 CVE Request: Linux 3.17 guest-triggerable KVM OOPSmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3f6f1480d86bf9fc16c160d803ab1d006e3058d5
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3f6f1480d86bf9fc16c160d803ab1d006e3058d5
- [kvm] 20141013 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: Fixing clflush/hint_nop/prefetchmailing-list
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