Race Condition Affecting kernel-debug-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-327.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDEBUGDEVEL-5087404
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 24 Sep 2014
Introduced: 24 Sep 2014
CVE-2014-7842 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-debug-devel to version 0:3.10.0-327.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:2152.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-devel package and not the kernel-debug-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71078
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a2b9e6c1a35afcc0973acb72e591c714e78885ff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163762
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2b9e6c1a35afcc0973acb72e591c714e78885ff
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7842
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/7
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2152
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62305
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62326
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62336
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a2b9e6c1a35afcc0973acb72e591c714e78885ff