PT-2014-8814 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Andrew Cooper · Published 2014-12-09 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2014-9065

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.4.x and earlier

Description The issue is related to the handling of read and write locks in the common/spinlock.c file. Local x86 guest users can cause a denial of service, resulting in a write denial or NMI watchdog timeout and host crash, by sending a large number of read requests.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.4.x and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9065

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_0226-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_0256-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0613-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 71

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9065 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:0613-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9065 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9065 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9065 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9065 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9065 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9065 · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0361.html · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/912011 · Note
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9065.html · Note