CVE-2014-7154

medium
Published 2014-10-02 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

Description

Race condition in HVMOP_track_dirty_vram in Xen 4.0.0 through 4.4.x does not ensure possession of the guarding lock for dirty video RAM tracking, which allows certain local guest domains to cause a denial of service 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.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse12.3affected
suse suse13.1affected
fedora fedora19affected
fedora fedora20affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.4.1-3
debian debianbullseyefixed4.4.1-3
debian debianforkyfixed4.4.1-3
debian debiansidfixed4.4.1-3
debian debiantrixiefixed4.4.1-3

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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