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Bug 1156615 (CVE-2014-8480, CVE-2014-8481) - CVE-2014-8480 CVE-2014-8481 kernel: kvm: NULL pointer dereference during rip relative instruction emulation
Summary: CVE-2014-8480 CVE-2014-8481 kernel: kvm: NULL pointer dereference during rip ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-8480, CVE-2014-8481
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1156616
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-24 19:30 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-12 05:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-10-24 19:33:03 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2014-10-24 19:30:16 UTC
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's kvm emulator processed certain rip relative instructions:

  * certain instructions (such as clflush) were missing proper flags in the
    decoder tables which to lead to uninitialized ctxt->memopp (CVE-2014-8480)

  * certain error cases (such as failure to fetch whole instruction) also lead
    to unitialized ctxt->memopp (CVE-2014-8481)

A privileged (CVE-2014-8480) or unprivileged (CVE-2014-8481) guest user could use these flaws to crash the host. 

Introduced by:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=41061cdb98a0bec464278b4db8e894a3121671f5

CVE-2014-8480 upstream patches:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?id=13e457e0eebf0a0c82c38ceb890d93eb826d62a6
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?id=3f6f1480d86bf9fc16c160d803ab1d006e3058d5

CVE-2014-8481 upstream patches:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?id=a430c9166312e1aa3d80bce32374233bdbfeba32

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Nadav Amit and Andy Lutomirski for reporting this issue.

Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2014-10-24 19:31:05 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1156616]

Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2014-10-24 19:33:03 UTC
Statement:

These issues do not affect Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

These issues do not affect kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.


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