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USN-2396-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

10/31/2014

Created

07/25/2018

Added

11/03/2014

Modified

07/09/2020

Description

Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-16-0-24-generic
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-16-0-24-generic-lpae
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-16-0-24-lowlatency
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-16-0-24-powerpc-e500mc
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-16-0-24-powerpc-smp
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-16-0-24-powerpc64-emb
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-16-0-24-powerpc64-smp

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2014-3610
70748
CVE - 2014-3610
CVE - 2014-3611
CVE - 2014-3646
CVE - 2014-3647
DSA-3060
RHSA-2015:0126
RHSA-2015:0284
USN-2396-1

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