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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2014-11-10T11:55:09.767
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:19:09.200
Link: CVE-2014-8481
Redhat