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CVE-2014-3601

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value that leads to permanently pinned pages.

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Severity

N/A

EPSS

Probability of exploitation (next 30 days): 0.0029 (0.3%)
Percentile: 52.3%
EPSS: 2026-05-06

Affects

suse:linux_enterprise_real_time_extensionopensuse:evergreensuse:linux_enterprise_serversuse:suse_linux_enterprise_servercanonical:ubuntu_linuxlinux:linux_kernel

Technical description

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value that leads to permanently pinned pages.

Published: 9/1/2014, 1:55:18 AM
Last modified: 5/6/2026, 10:30:45 PM

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