Race Condition Affecting kernel-bootwrapper package, versions <0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELBOOTWRAPPER-4486882
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 21 Oct 2014
Introduced: 21 Oct 2014
CVE-2014-3611 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-bootwrapper to version 0:3.10.0-123.9.2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:1724.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-bootwrapper package and not the kernel-bootwrapper package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144878
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3611
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0126.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1724
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2