CVE-2014-3647

arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c en el subsistema KVM en el kernel de Linux hasta 3.17.2 no realiza debidamente los cambios RIP, lo que permite a usuarios del sistema operativo invitado causar una denegación de servicio (caída del sistema operativo invitado) a través de una aplicación manipulada.

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem handled non-canonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the RIP (for example, branches or calls). A guest user with access to an I/O or MMIO region could use this flaw to crash the guest.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's file system implementation handled rename operations in which the source was inside and the destination was outside of a bind mount. A privileged user inside a container could use this flaw to escape the bind mount and, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPC subsystem initialized certain fields in an IPC object structure that were later used for permission checking before inserting the object into a globally visible list. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to elevate their privileges on the system.