# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.7 (`AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 7 May 2014
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3124, GHSA-4qq6-r634-f5m4, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3124

## 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: 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

- [CVE-2017-10912](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10912/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2017-10918](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10918/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2017-10920](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10920/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2017-10921](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10921/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2025-27466](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-27466/): Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-3124 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3124 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Xen Xen. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3124/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3124/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3124
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3124
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3124

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3124/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.