Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x before the xsa97-hap patch, when using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP), are not preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of service (vcpu consumption) by invoking these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5149.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html | Patch Vendor Advisory |
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html | Third Party Advisory |
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html | Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 | |
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html | |
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html | |
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234 |
Configurations
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Information
Published : 2014-08-22 07:55
Updated : 2018-10-30 09:27
NVD link : CVE-2014-5146
Mitre link : CVE-2014-5146
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-399
Resource Management Errors
Products Affected
xen
- xen
opensuse
- opensuse