CVE - CVE-2014-3610

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-3610	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging guest OS privileges, related to the wrmsr_interception function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and the handle_wrmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c.
References
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MISC:70742 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70742 MISC:DSA-3060 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060 MISC:RHSA-2015:0869 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2015:0481 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html MISC:USN-2394-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1 MISC:USN-2417-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1 MISC:USN-2418-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1 MISC:USN-2491-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1 MISC:[oss-security] 20141024 kvm issues URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9 MISC:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23 URL:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883 MISC:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23 URL:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23 MISC:openSUSE-SU-2015:0566 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20140514	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20140514)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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