Security Advisory
CVE-2014-7156
CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
Description
The x86_emulate function in arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c in Xen 3.3.x through 4.4.x does not check the supervisor mode permissions for instructions that generate software interrupts, which allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors.