CVE-2014-3610

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    CVE-2014-3610

    Published: 10 Nov 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.html, http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70742, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High