CVE-2014-3601 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3601?

CVE-2014-3601 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 1 Sep 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value that leads to permanently pinned pages.

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3601?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Opensuse Evergreen, Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3601?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-3601 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3601 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3601, GHSA-58c4-c7v3-ccxc, MGASA-2014-0392, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3601.