medium
5.5
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2014-3610

First published: Sun Sep 21 2014(Updated: )

If the guest writes a noncanonical value to certain MSR registers, KVM will write that value to the MSR in the host context and a #GP will be raised leading to kernel panic. A privileged guest user can use this flaw to crash the host. Enabling CONFIG_PARAVIRT when building the kernel mitigates this issue because wrmsrl() ends up invoking safe msr write variant. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Lars Bull of Google and Nadav Amit for reporting this issue.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Kernel<3.17.2
Ubuntu Linux=10.04
Ubuntu Linux=12.04
Debian GNU/Linux=7.0
openSUSE Evergreen=11.4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server=11-sp2
debian/linux
5.10.223-1
5.10.226-1
6.1.123-1
6.1.128-1
6.12.12-1
6.12.16-1
Linux kernel<3.17.2
Debian=7.0
Evergreen ILS=11.4

Remedy

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9

Remedy

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883

Remedy

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the severity of CVE-2014-3610?

    CVE-2014-3610 is considered a critical vulnerability that can lead to a kernel panic in the host system.

  • How do I fix CVE-2014-3610?

    To fix CVE-2014-3610, you should update to the vulnerable software versions listed in the original documentation.

  • Which software versions are affected by CVE-2014-3610?

    CVE-2014-3610 affects various versions of the Linux kernel, especially those prior to version 3.17.2.

  • What are the potential impacts of exploiting CVE-2014-3610?

    Exploitation of CVE-2014-3610 allows a privileged guest user to crash the host system.

  • Is there a mitigation for CVE-2014-3610?

    Enabling CONFIG_PARAVIRT when building the kernel is a mitigation strategy for CVE-2014-3610.

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