FKIE_CVE-2014-3611
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-11-10 11:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:08
Severity
Summary
Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 5.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 |
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