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CVE-2014-8480

Published: Nov 10, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156615

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[oss-security] 20141023 CVE Request: Linux 3.17 guest-triggerable KVM OOPS

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3f6f1480d86bf9fc16c160d803ab1d006e3058d5

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3f6f1480d86bf9fc16c160d803ab1d006e3058d5

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[kvm] 20141013 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: Fixing clflush/hint_nop/prefetch

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