UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8480

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8480

    Published: 10 Nov 2014Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-8480

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8480, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8480

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-lts-vivid

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.19.0-18.18~14.04.1

    Affected versions

    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