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CVE-2014-0049

Published

9 years ago

Last Modified

9 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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Buffer overflow in the complete_emulated_mmio function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that triggers an invalid memory copy affecting certain cancel_work_item data..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: High
Base Score: 7.4/10
Exploit Score: 4.4/10
Access Vector: Adjacent_network
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication Required: Single
Impact Score: 10/10
Confidentiality Impact: Complete
Availability Impact: Complete
Integrity Impact: Complete

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	Yes	-	3.13.6

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/03/1
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062368
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a08d3b3b