CVE-2014-7154

Description

Race condition in HVMOP_track_dirty_vram in Xen 4.0.0 through 4.4.x does not ensure possession of the guarding lock for dirty video RAM tracking, which allows certain local guest domains to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Category

6.1
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.91% Top 30%
Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory xen.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/61501 third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00003.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140483.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140418.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3041 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-104.html patch vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/61890 third party advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-42.xml vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030887 vdb entry third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-7154?
CVE-2014-7154 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-7154?
To fix CVE-2014-7154, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-7154 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2014-7154 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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