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CVE-2014-0049

Buffer overflow in the complete_emulated_mmio function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to exec

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Summary

Buffer overflow in the complete_emulated_mmio function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that triggers an invalid memory copy affecting certain cancel_work_item data.

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Affected versions

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References 5

kernel.org

openwall.com

GitHub · torvalds/linux

git.kernel.org

bugzilla.redhat.com