CVE-2014-3610

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-10-21
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

It was found that KVM's Write to Model Specific Register (WRMSR) instruction emulation would write non-canonical values passed in by the guest to certain MSRs in the host's context. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host.

See more information about CVE-2014-3610 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.5
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kvm)	ELSA-2015-0869	2015-04-22
Oracle Linux version 6 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-68.el6uek)	ELSA-2015-3012	2015-03-19
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2015-3012	2015-03-19
Oracle Linux version 7 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-68.el7uek)	ELSA-2015-3012	2015-03-19
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2015-3012	2015-03-19
Oracle VM version 3.3 (kernel-uek)	OVMSA-2015-0040	2015-04-06