CVE-2014-0049
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.
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-120
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/03/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062368
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a08d3b3b99efd509133946056531cdf8f3a0c09b