CVE-2014-5146

Vulnerability Description

Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x before the xsa97-hap patch, when using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP), are not preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of service (vcpu consumption) by invoking these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5149.

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References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.htm
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.htm
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.htmlPatchVendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.htm
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.htm
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry