CVE-2014-3601

Severity

43%

Complexity

25%

Confidentiality

115%

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value that leads to permanently pinned pages.

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value that leads to permanently pinned pages.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-09-01 01:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

openSUSE Evergreen 11.4

11.4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 Long Term Service Pack Support

11

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11

11

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Linux Kernel 3.16.0

3.16.0

Linux Kernel

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