CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2986
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The vgic_distr_mmio_write function in the virtual guest interrupt controller (GIC) distributor (arch/arm/vgic.c) in Xen 4.4.x, when running on an ARM system, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host crash) via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67047 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030146 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-94.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67047 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030146 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-94.html Patch, Vendor Advisory