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USN-2463-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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USN-2463-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

11/29/2014

Created

07/25/2018

Added

01/15/2015

Modified

07/09/2020

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.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-75-generic
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-75-generic-pae
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-75-highbank
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-75-omap
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-75-powerpc-smp
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-75-powerpc64-smp
ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-75-virtual

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2014-7842
70747
70749
CVE - 2014-7842
CVE - 2014-8369
DSA-3093
RHSA-2015:0674
USN-2463-1

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