VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-9065

CVSS score4.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-12-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

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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