CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9066
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-17
Description
Xen 4.4.x and earlier, when using a large number of VCPUs, 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 than CVE-2014-9065.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.4.1)
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71546 www.securityfocus.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71546 www.securityfocus.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 security.gentoo.org