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Tracker / CVE-2014-3601

CVE-2014-3601

Medium 4.3

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value that leads to permanently pinned pages.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.16.1
opensuse evergreen
suse linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
suse linux_enterprise_server
suse suse_linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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