CVE-2014-5146

medium
Published 2014-08-22 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.7

Description

Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x before the xsa97-hap patch, when using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP), 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-2014-5149.

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.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.4.1-4
sid Fixed 4.4.1-4
forky Fixed 4.4.1-4
bullseye Fixed 4.4.1-4
bookworm Fixed 4.4.1-4

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.