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CVE-2014-8480
medium
Description
The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 lacks intended decoder-table flags for certain RIP-relative instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted application.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156615
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70710
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/128427