Security Advisory
CVE-2014-7842
4.9
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
November 30, 2014
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory