CVE-2014-2915 Denial of service in n/a
Local guest users on ARM systems can crash the host or guest by improperly accessing restricted hardware features.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-2915?
CVE-2014-2915 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 24 Apr 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2915?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2014-2915?
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-2014-2915 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2915 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen
Sources
Also known as GHSA-496p-qjw4-wrwq, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2915.