CVE-2014-3610
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 cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging guest OS privileges, related to the wrmsr_interception function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and the handle_wrmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- EPSS score
- 0.6% (49th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3575)
- Published
- November 10, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3575 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- linux / linux kernel
- opensuse / evergreen
- suse / suse linux enterprise server
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0869.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70742(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2394-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2491-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23(Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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