| Name | CVE-2014-7842 |
| Description | Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | buster | 4.19.249-2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.19.289-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.10.197-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.191-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.55-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.52-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.5.10-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.5.13-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | wheezy | 3.2.65-1 | | | |
| linux | source | (unstable) | 3.16.7-ckt2-1 | | | |
| linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <no-dsa> (KVM not supported in Squeeze LTS)
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a2b9e6c1a35a (v3.18-rc1)