CVE-2014-5146

xen: Long latency virtual-mmu operations are not preemptible (xsa-97)

Published Aug 22, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 4.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-5044 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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 11:34 AM
Reserved
Jul 30, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 22, 2014, 2:55 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:11 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 12, 2014, 12:00 AM