Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2014-8480

The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 lacks intended decoder-table flags for certain RIP-relative instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted application.

EPSS: 0.006 (46.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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