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CVE-2014-8480

N/A
Published: November 10, 2014 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:16 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

Description

The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 lacks intended decoder-table flags for certain RIP-relative instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted application.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Linux Kernel· Linux
95%
v ≤ 3.18rc1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (6)

x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3f6f1480d86bf9fc16c160d803ab1d006e3058d5
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/128427
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/23/7
VDB Entryx_refsource_BID
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70710
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156615
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploit
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3f6f1480d86bf9fc16c160d803ab1d006e3058d5

CVSS

4.9MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399

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