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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2014-11-10T11:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T13:18:48.307Z
Reserved: 2014-10-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-8480
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2014-11-10T11:55:09.720
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:19:09.043
Link: CVE-2014-8480
Redhat