CVE-2014-9066

medium

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.

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/71546

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2014-12-09

Updated: 2018-10-30

Type: CWE-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.4

Severity: MEDIUM