CVE-2014-3645

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not have an exit handler for the INVEPT instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.11.7; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+265)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bfd0a56b90005f8c8a004baf407ad90045c2b11e
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0126.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/24/9
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144835
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bfd0a56b90005f8c8a004baf407ad90045c2b11e
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bfd0a56b90005f8c8a004baf407ad90045c2b11e
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0126.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.html

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