CVE-2014-3968
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
The HVMOP_inject_msi function in Xen 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 4.4.x allows local guest HVM administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a large number of crafted requests, which trigger an error messages to be logged.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13.1 | Affected | — |
| 12.3 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.4.1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.4.1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.4.1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.4.1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.4.1-1 |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134710.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134739.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00003.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/04/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67794
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67824
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030322
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-96.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3968
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.