CVE-2014-2915

Severity

55%

Complexity

51%

Confidentiality

115%

Xen 4.4.x, when running on ARM systems, does not properly restrict access to hardware features, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host or guest crash) via unspecified vectors, related to (1) cache control, (2) coprocessors, (3) debug registers, and (4) other unspecified registers.

Xen 4.4.x, when running on ARM systems, does not properly restrict access to hardware features, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host or guest crash) via unspecified vectors, related to (1) cache control, (2) coprocessors, (3) debug registers, and (4) other unspecified registers.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Xen

First reported 10 years ago

2014-04-24 14:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

Xen Xen 4.4.0

4.4.0

Xen 4.4.0 release candidate 1

4.4.0

References

[oss-security] 20140422 Re: Xen Security Advisory 93 - Hardware features unintentionally exposed to guests on ARM

[oss-security] 20140423 Xen Security Advisory 93 (CVE-2014-2915) - Hardware features unintentionally exposed to guests on ARM

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http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-93.html

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