CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-3611
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-11-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.17.2)
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0126.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144878 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0126.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144878 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2 Patch, Third Party Advisory