{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2014-11-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "xen: Excessive checking in compatibility mode hypercall argument translation (xsa111)",
    "id" : "1164253",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164253"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "details" : [ "The compatibility mode hypercall argument translation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.4.x, when running on a 64-bit hypervisor, allows local 32-bit HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving altering the high halves of registers while in 64-bit mode." ],
  "statement" : "Not vulnerable.\nThis issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Xen for reporting this issue.",
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-xen",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8866\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8866" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-8866",
  "csaw" : false
}