CVE-2014-3611

medium

Published 2014-11-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.7

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.7

Description

Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

47%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Red Hat Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
5.0	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.04	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.16.7-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.16.7-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.16.7-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.16.7-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.16.7-1`
7.0	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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