CVE

Id
70906  
CVE No.
CVE-2014-3610  
Status
Candidate  
Description
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20140514)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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