CVE-2014-3125

Severity

62%

Complexity

51%

Confidentiality

130%

Xen 4.4.x, when running on an ARM system, does not properly context switch the CNTKCTL_EL1 register, which allows local guest users to modify the hardware timers and cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors.

Xen 4.4.x, when running on an ARM system, does not properly context switch the CNTKCTL_EL1 register, which allows local guest users to modify the hardware timers and cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:C).

Overview

Type

Xen

First reported 10 years ago

2014-05-02 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

58347

Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20140430 Re: Xen Security Advisory 91 - Hardware timer context is not properly context switched on ARM

[oss-security] 20140430 Xen Security Advisory 91 - Hardware timer context is not properly context switched on ARM

67157

1030184

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-91.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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