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CVE-2014-2915

Published: 24 April 2014

Xen 4.4.x, when running on ARM systems, does not properly restrict access to hardware features, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host or guest crash) via unspecified vectors, related to (1) cache control, (2) coprocessors, (3) debug registers, and (4) other unspecified registers.

Notes

AuthorNote
seth-arnold
Only affects ARM 32 bit, ARM 64 bit, 4.4 and newer.
Only "medium" because advisory indicates privilege escalation
is not thought possible

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
xen
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Does not exist

precise Not vulnerable

quantal Not vulnerable

saucy Not vulnerable

trusty
Released (4.4.0-0ubuntu5.1)
upstream Needed

Patches:
upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2014-04/binaZ6cF2rFFv.bin
upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2014-04/bin_ugBJvAPZP.bin
upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2014-04/bini3rTlVIueR.bin
upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2014-04/binaqo2yyFNjK.bin
upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2014-04/binr2uF18q90z.bin
upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2014-04/biniG0pmvXkat.bin
Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community.
xen-3.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Not vulnerable

precise Does not exist

quantal Does not exist

saucy Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(end of life)
Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community.