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FKIE_CVE-2014-3610

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-11-10 11:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:08
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70742Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70742Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:08:36.840",
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