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DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3610

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3610 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging guest OS privileges, related to the wrmsr_interception function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and the handle_wrmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13linux0, 0, 0
Debian:12linux0, 0, 0
Debian:14linux0, 0, 0
Debian:11linux0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Nov 10, 2014 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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