Xen 'Hardware Virtualisation' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:67018

Info

Xen 'Hardware Virtualisation' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 67018
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2014-2915
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Apr 22 2014 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 23 2014 10:59AM
Credit: Thomas Leonard and Julien Grall
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Xen 'Hardware Virtualisation' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Xen is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability.

Local attackers with access to a guest operating system can exploit this issue to crash the host operating system, effectively denying service to legitimate users.

Xen 4.4 and later are vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

Xen 'Hardware Virtualisation' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

Xen 'Hardware Virtualisation' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

References

Xen 'Hardware Virtualisation' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

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