CVE-2014-9065

Publication date 9 December 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
xen	14.10 utopic	Fixed 4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.10.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release
xen-3.3	14.10 utopic	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

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Notes

mdeslaur

doesn't affect 4.1

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9065