Security Advisory
CVE-2014-8480
4.9
Vulnerability Description
The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 lacks intended decoder-table flags for certain RIP-relative instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted application.
Published Date
November 10, 2014
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory