CVE-2014-3124

medium
Published 2014-05-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.7
VIR risk
6.7

Description

The HVMOP_set_mem_type control in Xen 4.1 through 4.4.x allows local guest HVM administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by leveraging a separate qemu-dm vulnerability to trigger invalid page table translations for unspecified memory page types.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3124

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-92.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.4.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.4.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.4.1-1
debian debiansidfixed4.4.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.4.1-1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.