CVE-2014-9065
First published: Tue Dec 09 2014(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Xen Xen | <=4.4.1 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.1 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.2 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71544
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
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- vendor/xen
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- version/xen xen/4.4.1
- vendor/opensuse
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- version/opensuse opensuse/13.1
- version/opensuse opensuse/13.2