Vulnerability CVE-2014-3690

Vulnerability CVE-2014-3690

Published: 2014-11-10

Description:

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service (system disruption) by leveraging /dev/kvm access, as demonstrated by PR_SET_TSC prctl calls within a modified copy of QEMU.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Med.	KVM DoS triggerable by malicious host userspace	Andy	22.10.2014

Type:

CWE-399

(Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10	6.9/10	3.9/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Local	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
None	None	Complete

Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel

References:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00035.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.2

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/29/7

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70691

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2419-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2421-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153322

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a

Vulnerability CVE-2014-3690

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Med.

KVM DoS triggerable by malicious host userspace

CWE-399

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

4.9/10

6.9/10

3.9/10

Local

Low

No required

None

None

Complete

Affected software

References: