Security Advisory

CVE-2014-0049

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-03-11 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 09:05:37
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the complete_emulated_mmio function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that triggers an invalid memory copy affecting certain cancel_work_item data.