Security Advisory

CVE-2014-7842

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-11-30 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 13:03:27
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313.