{"id":"CVE-2014-3690","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM","description":"arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service (system disruption) by leveraging /dev/kvm access, as demonstrated by PR_SET_TSC prctl calls within a modified copy of QEMU.","publishedAt":"2014-11-10T11:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2024-08-06T10:50:18.307Z","severity":null,"assigner":"redhat","products":["n/a n/a"],"affected":[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}],"references":["http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/29/7","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html","http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1","http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.2","http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1","http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00035.html","http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2419-1","http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70691","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html","http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html","https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html","http://secunia.com/advisories/60174","http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2421-1","http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153322","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/4"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T19:41:17.924Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2014/3xxx/CVE-2014-3690.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.1","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2014-3690","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2014-11-10T11:00:00.000Z","dateUpdated":"2024-08-06T10:50:18.307Z","assignerShortName":"redhat","assignerOrgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749","dateReserved":"2014-05-14T00:00:00.000Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service (system disruption) by leveraging /dev/kvm access, as demonstrated by PR_SET_TSC prctl calls within a modified copy of QEMU."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/29/7","name":"[oss-security] 20141029 Re: CVE-2014-3690: KVM DoS triggerable by malicious host userspace","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2015:0736","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1","name":"USN-2418-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU"]},{"url":"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.2","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1","name":"USN-2417-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU"]},{"url":"http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00035.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2015:0178","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2419-1","name":"USN-2419-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU"]},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060","name":"DSA-3060","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_DEBIAN"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70691","name":"70691","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html","name":"RHSA-2015:0864","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html","name":"RHSA-2015:0290","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2015:0481","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE"]},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058","name":"MDVSA-2015:058","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_MANDRIVA"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html","name":"openSUSE-SU-2015:0566","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE"]},{"url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html","name":"RHSA-2015:0782","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/60174","name":"60174","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_refsource_SECUNIA"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2421-1","name":"USN-2421-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1","name":"USN-2420-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU"]},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153322","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/4","name":"[oss-security] 20141021 CVE-2014-3690: KVM DoS triggerable by malicious host userspace","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"]}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"redhat","dateUpdated":"2018-01-04T19:57:01.000Z","orgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749"},"datePublic":"2014-10-21T00:00:00.000Z"},"adp":[{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/29/7","name":"[oss-security] 20141029 Re: CVE-2014-3690: KVM DoS triggerable by malicious host userspace","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2015:0736","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1","name":"USN-2418-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.2","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1","name":"USN-2417-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00035.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2015:0178","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2419-1","name":"USN-2419-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060","name":"DSA-3060","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_DEBIAN","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70691","name":"70691","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html","name":"RHSA-2015:0864","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html","name":"RHSA-2015:0290","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2015:0481","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058","name":"MDVSA-2015:058","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_MANDRIVA","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html","name":"openSUSE-SU-2015:0566","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d974baa398f34393db76be45f7d4d04fbdbb4a0a","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html","name":"RHSA-2015:0782","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/60174","name":"60174","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_refsource_SECUNIA","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2421-1","name":"USN-2421-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2420-1","name":"USN-2420-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153322","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/4","name":"[oss-security] 20141021 CVE-2014-3690: KVM DoS triggerable by malicious host userspace","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CVE","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","dateUpdated":"2024-08-06T10:50:18.307Z"}}]}}}