CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-9065

Published: Dec 09, 2014 | Modified: Oct 30, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

common/spinlock.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier 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 to CVE-2014-9066.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xen Xen * 4.4.1 (including)
Xen Ubuntu devel *
Xen Ubuntu trusty *
Xen Ubuntu utopic *
Xen-3.3 Ubuntu upstream *

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