CVE-2014-9065
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.4
Description
common/spinlock.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly handle read and write locks, which allows local x86 guest users to cause a denial of service (write denial or NMI watchdog timeout and host crash) via a large number of read requests, a different vulnerability to CVE-2014-9066.
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ 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 | 4.4.1-6 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.4.1-6 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.4.1-6 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.4.1-6 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.4.1-6 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71544
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9065
CWEs
CWE-17
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.