Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 10, 2014· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2014-8480
CVE-2014-8480
Description
The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 lacks intended decoder-table flags for certain RIP-relative instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted application.
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2- Range: < 3.18-rc2
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