CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0049
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-03-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
Buffer overflow in the complete_emulated_mmio function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that triggers an invalid memory copy affecting certain cancel_work_item data.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.13.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.6 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/03/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062368 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.6 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/03/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062368 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b Patch, Third Party Advisory