CVE-2014-3124 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local guest administrators can crash the hypervisor or execute arbitrary code by exploiting memory translation flaws in Xen.
- 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-2014-3124?
CVE-2014-3124 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 7 May 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_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.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3124?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2014-3124?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2014-3124 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3124 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3124, GHSA-4qq6-r634-f5m4, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3124.