CVE-2014-8866

First published: Mon Dec 01 2014(Updated: )

The compatibility mode hypercall argument translation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.4.x, when running on a 64-bit hypervisor, allows local 32-bit HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving altering the high halves of registers while in 64-bit mode.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
Debian Debian Linux	=7.0
Xen Xen	=3.3.0
Xen Xen	=3.3.1
Xen Xen	=3.3.2
Xen Xen	=3.4.0
Xen Xen	=3.4.1
Xen Xen	=3.4.2
Xen Xen	=3.4.3
Xen Xen	=3.4.4
Xen Xen	=4.0.0
Xen Xen	=4.0.1
Xen Xen	=4.0.2
Xen Xen	=4.0.3
Xen Xen	=4.0.4
Xen Xen	=4.1.0
Xen Xen	=4.1.1
Xen Xen	=4.1.2
Xen Xen	=4.1.3
Xen Xen	=4.1.4
Xen Xen	=4.1.5
Xen Xen	=4.1.6.1
Xen Xen	=4.2.0
Xen Xen	=4.2.1
Xen Xen	=4.2.2
Xen Xen	=4.2.3
Xen Xen	=4.3.0
Xen Xen	=4.3.1
Xen Xen	=4.4.0
Xen Xen	=4.4.0-rc1
openSUSE openSUSE	=13.1
openSUSE openSUSE	=13.2

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http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-111.html

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