Security Advisory

CVE-2014-5149

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-08-22 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 11:34:37
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x, when using shadow pagetables, 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-2014-5146.