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CVE-2014-7842
Published: Nov 30, 2014
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
RHSA-2016:0855
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
SUSE-SU-2015:0736
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
71078
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
SUSE-SU-2015:0652
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
[oss-security] 20141113 CVE-2014-7842 Linux kernel: kvm: reporting emulation failures to userspace
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
62326
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
SUSE-SU-2015:0481
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2015:0566
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
62336
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163762
x_refsource_CONFIRM
62305
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
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