Security Advisory

CVE-2015-3214

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-08-31 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 05:39:31
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The pit_ioport_read in i8254.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 and QEMU before 2.3.1 does not distinguish between read lengths and write lengths, which might allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by triggering use of an invalid index.