Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8369

Title: Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8369.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Nov 10, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8369: The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS page unpinning) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging guest OS privileges. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2014-3601.

Impacted Vendors

U
ubuntu 1
S
suse 2
N
novell 1
O
opensuse 1
E
evergreen-ils 1
L
linux 1
D
debian 1

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3d32e4dbe71374a6780eaf51d719d76f9a9bf22f http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0674.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62326 http://secunia.com/advisories/62336 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3093 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70747 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70749 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156518 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3d32e4dbe71374a6780eaf51d719d76f9a9bf22f https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/24/460 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3d32e4dbe71374a6780eaf51d719d76f9a9bf22f http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0674.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62326 http://secunia.com/advisories/62336 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3093 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70747 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70749 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156518 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3d32e4dbe71374a6780eaf51d719d76f9a9bf22f https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/24/460
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8369 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.