CVE-2014-9065

Published Dec 9, 2014

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
common/spinlock.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly handle read and write locks, which allows local x86 guest users to cause a denial of service (write denial or NMI watchdog timeout and host crash) via a large number of read requests, a different vulnerability to CVE-2014-9066.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.4
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
2.7
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-17

Social media

Hype score
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Configurations