CVE-2014-9065

Xen < 4.4.1 - Denial of Service via Spinlock Read Request Flood

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71544
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4

Scores

EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 27.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-17
Status published
Products (3)
opensuse/opensuse 13.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
xen/xen < 4.4.1
Published Dec 09, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026