Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Xen - CVE-2014-2915

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Xen - CVE-2014-2915

Published: April 24, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41754
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2915
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Xen Project
Affected software:
Xen

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Xen 4.4.x, when running on ARM systems, does not properly restrict access to hardware features, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host or guest crash) via unspecified vectors, related to (1) cache control, (2) coprocessors, (3) debug registers, and (4) other unspecified registers.


How to mitigate CVE-2014-2915

Install update from vendor's website.

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