The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 does not properly handle invalid instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted application that triggers (1) an improperly fetched instruction or (2) an instruction that occupies too many bytes. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8480.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-11-10T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:18:48.317Z

Reserved: 2014-10-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8481

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-11-10T11:55:09.767

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:22:36.230

Link: CVE-2014-8481

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2014-10-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8481 - Bugzilla