CVE-2014-0049

 

Published at: - 11-03-2014 02:01

Last modified: - 21-09-2022 08:44

Total changes: - 2

Description

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b
• [oss-security] 20140303 CVE-2014-0049 -- Linux kernel: kvm: mmio_fragments out-of-the-bounds access-Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.6
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062368

 

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