CVE-2014-2599 Denial of service in n/a
Local guest administrators can cause a denial of service via CPU consumption in the Xen hypervisor by leveraging access to service domains.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-2599?
CVE-2014-2599 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 28 Mar 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The HVMOP_set_mem_access HVM control operations in Xen 4.1.x for 32-bit and 4.1.x through 4.4.x for 64-bit allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by leveraging access to certain service domains for HVM guests and a large input.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2599?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2014-2599?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2014-2599 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2599 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2599, GHSA-8pg3-wwm7-xq2v, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2599.