CVE-2014-8867
An insufficient bound checking flaw was found in the Xen hypervisor's implementation of acceleration support for the "REP MOVS" instructions. A privileged HVM guest user could potentially use this flaw to crash the host.
Find out more about CVE-2014-8867 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Statement
This issue does affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Future kernel-xen updates for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 may address this issue.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 5.2 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) | RHSA-2015:0783 | 2015-04-07 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel-xen | Affected |