Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2014-8481
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.
EPSS: 0.006 (44.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Linux Linux_kernel
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Exploit)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)