Tracker / CVE-2014-3610
CVE-2014-3610
Medium 5.5
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.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux |
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.17.2 |
| opensuse | evergreen |
| suse | suse_linux_enterprise_server |
Analysis
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