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CVE-2014-3601 Details

Description

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value that leads to permanently pinned pages.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=350b8bdd689cd2ab2c67c8a86a0be86cfa0751a7 CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html CVEThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131951 CVEIssue Tracking

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-189Numeric Errors[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-3601
NVD Published Date:
Sep 1, 2014
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2014-3601 Details - Not Deferred