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CVE-2014-7842

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Date: November 29, 2014

Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313.

Language: C

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Related Resources (22)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62305
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71078
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7842
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/7
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7842
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2b9e6c1a35afcc0973acb72e591c714e78885ff
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-7842
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2b9e6c1a35afcc0973acb72e591c714e78885ff
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163762
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7842
http://secunia.com/advisories/62326
http://secunia.com/advisories/62336
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-7842

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Race Conditions

CWE-362

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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