CVE-2014-8369

high

Description

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS page unpinning) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging guest OS privileges. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2014-3601.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156518

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70749

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70747

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/7

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3093

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0674.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3d32e4dbe71374a6780eaf51d719d76f9a9bf22f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-11-10

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High