Vulnerability in Xen
CVE-2014-2915
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (47.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 47th percentile — 47.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Xen — versions 4.4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030135 (vdb-entry)
- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-93.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/2 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/22/10 (mailing-list)