CVE-2014-3610

It was found that KVM's Write to Model Specific Register (WRMSR) instruction emulation would write non-canonical values passed in by the guest to certain MSRs in the host's context. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host.

This issue does not affect Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Future kvm package updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 may address this issue.

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