CVE-2014-8369 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8369?

CVE-2014-8369 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Nov 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 3.17.2 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8369?

It affects 5 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2014-8369?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-8369 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8369 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8369, GHSA-78qf-3xpg-qfgr, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8369.