CVE-2014-8594

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-11-18
Bugzilla:
1160664: CVE-2014-8594 kernel: xen: Insufficient restrictions on certain MMU update hypercalls (xsa109)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The do_mmu_update function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.x through 4.4.x does not properly restrict updates to only PV page tables, which allows remote PV guests to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging hardware emulation services for HVM guests using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP).

Find out more about CVE-2014-8594 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel-xen Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen for reporting this issue.

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