CVE-2014-3610

medium

Published 2014-11-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging guest OS privileges, related to the wrmsr_interception function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and the handle_wrmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	7.0	affected
linux-kernel		affected	`3.17.2`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.16.7-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.16.7-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.16.7-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.16.7-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.16.7-1`
suse	11	affected
ubuntu	10.04	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.