CVE-2014-9065

N/A
Published: December 9, 2014 at 10:52 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsopenSUSEXen

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

common/spinlock.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly handle read and write locks, which allows local x86 guest users to cause a denial of service (write denial or NMI watchdog timeout and host crash) via a large number of read requests, a different vulnerability to CVE-2014-9066.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Xen· Xenwordpress-plugin
95%
v ≤ 4.4.1

References (6)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71544
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-17

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