** Description changed:

- There's a race condition in the PIT emulation code in KVM.  In
- __kvm_migrate_pit_timer the pit_timer object is accessed without
- synchronization. A local guest user with access to the PIT i/o ports
- could use this flaw to crash the host.
+ 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. A local guest user with
+ access to the PIT i/o ports could use this flaw to crash the host.
  
  Break-Fix: - 2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2

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