Description
Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313.
Published: 2014-11-30
Score: 4.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-7696 Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313.
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Linux Linux Kernel
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:03:27.413Z

Reserved: 2014-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-7842

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Status : Modified

Published: 2014-11-30T01:59:04.587

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-7842

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-09-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-7842 - Bugzilla

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