First published: Tue Aug 19 2014(Updated: )
A flaw was found in the way iommu mapping failures were handled in kvm_iommu_map_pages() function in the Linux kernel. A privileged user in the guest could use this flaw to crash the host in case the guest has access to passed in device. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Jack Morgenstein of Mellanox for reporting this issue; the security impact of this issue was discovered by Michael Tsirkin of Red Hat.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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redhat/kernel | <0:2.6.32-504.el6 | 0:2.6.32-504.el6 |
Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension | =11.0-sp3 | |
Opensuse Evergreen | =11.4 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | =11-sp2 | |
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | =11 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
Linux Linux kernel | <=3.16.1 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =3.16.0 | |
debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.12.5-1 6.12.6-1 |
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