CVE-2014-5146 | BDVDB-2026-63279 Detail
Description#
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.