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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:48:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: luto@...capital.net
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, pbonzini@...hat.com, nadav.amit@...il.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Linux 3.17 guest-triggerable KVM OOPS
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> Nadav Amit discovered an error in the instruction decoder that
> would cause certain RIP-relative instructions to OOPS the decoder.
> Specifically, rather than adding RIP to the operand address, RIP would
> be added to *0 from the host's perspective.
Use CVE-2014-8480.
> I also discovered that Nadav's fix was incomplete (or that there was
> another bug, depending on your perspective). Certain invalid
> instructions (due to multiple error cases, including a failure to
> fetch part of the instruction or due to the instruction being too
> long) could trigger the same NULL pointer dereference.
Use CVE-2014-8481.
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