Uncaught Exception Affecting kvm-debuginfo package, versions <0:83-270.el5_11


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KVMDEBUGINFO-9840615
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed21 Oct 2014

Introduced: 21 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-3610  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-248  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 kvm-debuginfo to version 0:83-270.el5_11 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:0869.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kvm-debuginfo package and not the kvm-debuginfo package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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