CVE-2014-8481

Name	CVE-2014-8481
Description	The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 does not properly handle invalid instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted application that triggers (1) an improperly fetched instruction or (2) an instruction that occupies too many bytes. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8480.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	3.16.84-1	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.9.320-2	fixed
	stretch (lts), stretch	4.9.320-3	fixed
	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.15-1	fixed
	sid	6.1.20-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	(not affected)
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

- linux <not-affected> (Present in 3.17 with incomplete fix)
- linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Present in 3.17 with incomplete fix)
Fix: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?id=a430c9166312e1aa3d80bce32374233bdbfeba32