Vulnerability in Xen
CVE-2014-3124
The HVMOP_set_mem_type control in Xen 4.1 through 4.4.x allows local guest HVM administrators to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by leveraging a separate qemu-dm vulnerability to trigger invalid page table translations for unspecified memory page types.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (55.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 55.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Xen — versions 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/29/1 (mailing-list)
- xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-92.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133148.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/133191.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/67113 (vdb-entry)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/30/10 (mailing-list)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030160 (vdb-entry)