Race condition in Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows denial of service via crafted application in KVM x86 emulation

CVE-2014-7842 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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