CVE-2014-5149
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CVE-2014-5149
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.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
August 22, 2014
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 10, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2014-5149
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69199
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95235
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04