Code Affecting xen package, versions [,4.4.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383921
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-9065  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-17  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.4.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Code 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.

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