Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html