CVE-2014-7155

Xen 4.4.x - DoS/Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The x86_emulate function in arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly check supervisor mode permissions, which allows local HVM users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) or gain guest kernel mode privileges via vectors involving an (1) HLT, (2) LGDT, (3) LIDT, or (4) LMSW instruction.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00003.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140483.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-105.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200218
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030888
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140418.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3041
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/61858
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/61890
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-42.xml
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70057

Scores

EPSS 0.0103
EPSS Percentile 77.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (42)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
fedoraproject/fedora 19
fedoraproject/fedora 20
opensuse/opensuse 12.3
opensuse/opensuse 13.1
xen/xen 3.0.2
xen/xen 3.0.3
xen/xen 3.0.4
xen/xen 3.1.3
xen/xen 3.1.4
... and 32 more
Published Oct 02, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026