CVE-2014-3610

kernel: kvm: noncanonical MSR writes

Published Nov 10, 2014 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3060-1 linux security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-3575 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2394-1 Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2395-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2396-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2417-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2418-1 Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2462-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2491-1 Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
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