GHSA-VM7H-784C-GG5H
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:18 – Updated: 2025-04-12 12:31Buffer 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.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2014-0049"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-120"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2014-03-11T13:01:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "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.",
"id": "GHSA-vm7h-784c-gg5h",
"modified": "2025-04-12T12:31:14Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:18:05Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0049"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062368"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.6"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/03/1"
}
],
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}
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