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CVE-2014-3610 json

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-ca…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-3575

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 3.17.2
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.16.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3610

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-39.66

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3610

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kvm RHEL 5 VIRTUALIZATION 83-270.el5_11
  • kmod-kvm RHEL 5 VIRTUALIZATION 83-270.el5_11
  • kvm-tools RHEL 5 VIRTUALIZATION 83-270.el5_11
  • kvm-qemu-img RHEL 5 VIRTUALIZATION 83-270.el5_11

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0869

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3610 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: kvm: noncanonical MSR writes

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) kvm 83-270.el5_11, kmod-kvm 83-270.el5_11, kvm-tools 83-270.el5_11, kvm-qemu-img 83-270.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization (v. 5 server) kvm 83-270.el5_11, kmod-kvm 83-270.el5_11, kvm-tools 83-270.el5_11, kvm-qemu-img 83-270.el5_11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0869
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-tools, +3 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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