VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3611

medium
Published 2014-11-10 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
4.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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
4.7

Description

Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
47%
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
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected
linux linux-kernelaffected
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
redhat rhel5.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.16.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.16.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.16.7-1
debian debiansidfixed3.16.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.16.7-1

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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