CVE-2014-8867

xen: Insufficient bounding of "REP MOVS" to MMIO emulated inside the hypervisor (xsa112)

Published Dec 1, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 4.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The acceleration support for the "REP MOVS" instruction in Xen 4.4.x, 3.2.x, and earlier lacks properly bounds checking for memory mapped I/O (MMIO) emulated in the hypervisor, which allows local HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified vectors.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3140-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-8697 The acceleration support for the "REP MOVS" instruction in Xen 4.4.x, 3.2.x, and earlier lacks properly bounds checking for memory mapped I/O (MMIO) emulated in the hypervisor, which allows local HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified vectors.
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 1:26 PM
Reserved
Nov 14, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 1, 2014, 3:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:17 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Nov 27, 2014, 12:00 AM