CVE-2014-3967

medium
Published 2014-06-05 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The HVMOP_inject_msi function in Xen 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 4.4.x does not properly check the return value from the IRQ setup check, which allows local HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse12.3affected
suse suse13.1affected
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

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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