CVE-2014-5146
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.2 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.4.1-4 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.4.1-4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.4.1-4 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.4.1-4 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.4.1-4 |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5146
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.