VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-5149

CVSS score4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.43%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-08-22
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x, when using shadow pagetables, are not preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of service (vcpu consumption) by invoking these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5146.

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