Red Hat Security AdvisoryRHSA-2015:0869
kvm security update
Released 2015-04-22 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →
Fixed in
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) kmod-kvm-83-270.el5_11, kmod-kvm-debug-83-270.el5_11, kvm-83-270.el5_11 +2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization (v. 5 server) kmod-kvm-83-270.el5_11, kmod-kvm-debug-83-270.el5_11, kvm-83-270.el5_11 +2
Fixes 2 records
Priority LOW 26
The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to caus…
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5· Local · Low privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00595 · Published 2014-11-10 · Partial fix
Priority LOW 21
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 inco…
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7· Local · Low privileges · No interaction · EPSS 0.00294 · Published 2014-11-10 · Partial fix CWE-362
