CVE-2014-3611
published 2014-11-10CVE-2014-3611: 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…
PriorityP417medium4.7CVSS 3.1
AVLACHPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.29%
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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.
Affected
11 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | linux | < linux 3.16.7-1 (bookworm) | linux 3.16.7-1 (bookworm) |
| linux | linux_kernel | <= 3.17.2 | — |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 0 < 3.16.7-1 | 3.16.7-1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 0 < 3.16.7-1 | 3.16.7-1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 0 < 3.16.7-1 | 3.16.7-1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 0 < 3.16.7-1 | 3.16.7-1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 0 < 3.13.0-39.66 | 3.13.0-39.66 |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.14.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.7MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
osv6.9MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.9MEDIUM
vendor_debian4.7MEDIUM
vendor_redhat4.7MEDIUM
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GHSA
GHSA-fjrx-4j65-6mrx: Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-13
CVE-2014-3611 [MEDIUM] CWE-362 GHSA-fjrx-4j65-6mrx: Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254
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.
OSV
CVE-2014-3611: Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254
osv·2014-11-10·CVSS 4.7
CVE-2014-3611 [MEDIUM] CVE-2014-3611: Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254
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.
OSV
linux vulnerabilities
osv·2014-10-30·CVSS 6.9
CVE-2014-3647 [MEDIUM] linux vulnerabilities
linux vulnerabilities
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles
noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip
(Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use
this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest.
(CVE-2014-3647)
A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged
guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system
crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)
Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt
timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux
kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could exploit t
OSV
CVE-2014-3611: Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254
osv·2014-10-23·CVSS 4.7
CVE-2014-3611 [MEDIUM] CVE-2014-3611: Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254
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. A local guest user with access to the PIT i/o ports could use this flaw to crash the host.
Kernel
KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
kernel_security·2014-08-27·CVSS 4.7
CVE-2014-3611 [MEDIUM] KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
There's a race condition in the PIT emulation code in KVM. In
__kvm_migrate_pit_timer the pit_timer object is accessed without
synchronization. If the race condition occurs at the wrong time this
can crash the host kernel.
This fixes CVE-2014-3611.
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-02-04·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2014-3610 [MEDIUM] Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Title: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle
faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS) register in the x86
architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain
administrative privileges. (CVE-2014-9322)
Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt
timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux
kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service (crash) on the host. (CVE-2014-3611)
Lars Bull and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in how KVM (the Kernel Virtual
Machine) handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR registers. A privileged
guest us
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-01-13·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2014-3610 [MEDIUM] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Title: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle
faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS) register in the x86
architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain
administrative privileges. (CVE-2014-9322)
Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt
timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux
kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service (crash) on the host. (CVE-2014-3611)
Lars Bull and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in how KVM (the Kernel Virtual
Machine) handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR registers. A privileged
guest user can
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2014-11-25·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2014-3610 [MEDIUM] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Title: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles
noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip
(Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use
this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest.
(CVE-2014-3647)
A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged
guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system
crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)
A flaw was discovered with invept instruction support when using nested EPT
in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine). An unprivileged guest user coul
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2014-11-25·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2014-3610 [MEDIUM] Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Title: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles
noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip
(Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use
this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest.
(CVE-2014-3647)
A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged
guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system
crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)
A flaw was discovered with invept instruction support when using nested EPT
in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine). An unprivileged guest u
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2014-10-31·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2014-3610 [MEDIUM] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Title: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles
noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip
(Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use
this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest.
(CVE-2014-3647)
A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged
guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system
crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)
Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt
timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Lin
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2014-10-30·CVSS 6.9
CVE-2014-3182 [MEDIUM] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Title: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles
noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip
(Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use
this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest.
(CVE-2014-3647)
A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged
guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system
crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)
Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt
timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Lin
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2014-10-30·CVSS 6.9
CVE-2014-3182 [MEDIUM] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
Title: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles
noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip
(Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use
this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest.
(CVE-2014-3647)
A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged
guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system
crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)
Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt
timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsyst
Red Hat
kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition
vendor_redhat·2014-10-21·CVSS 4.7
CVE-2014-3611 [MEDIUM] CWE-362 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition
kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition
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.
A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user who has access to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the host.
Statement: This issue does affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. This issue does affect the kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Future updates may address this issue in the
respective Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.
Package: kvm (
Debian
CVE-2014-3611: linux - Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c i...
vendor_debian·2014·CVSS 4.7
CVE-2014-3611 [MEDIUM] CVE-2014-3611: linux - Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c i...
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.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 3.16.7-1)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 3.16.7-1)
forky: resolved (fixed in 3.16.7-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 3.16.7-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 3.16.7-1)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2014-10-24·CVSS 4.7
CVE-2014-3611 [MEDIUM] CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition [fedora-all]
CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
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When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
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Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
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NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition
bugzilla·2014-09-21·CVSS 4.7
CVE-2014-3611 [MEDIUM] CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition
CVE-2014-3611 kernel: kvm: PIT timer race condition
There's a race condition in the PIT emulation code in KVM. In
__kvm_migrate_pit_timer the pit_timer object is accessed without
synchronization.
A local guest user with access to the PIT i/o ports could use this flaw to
crash the host.
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Lars Bull of Google for reporting this issue.
Discussion:
Statement:
This issue does affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. This issue does affect the kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Future updates may address this issue in the
respective Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.
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Upstream patch:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?id=2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489da
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0126.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144878https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0126.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144878https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2
2014-11-10
Published