CVE-2014-3967 Null dereference in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Local HVM guest administrators can cause a denial of service via NULL pointer dereference in Xen hypervisor.

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-2014-3967?

CVE-2014-3967 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 5 Jun 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The HVMOP_inject_msi function in Xen 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 4.4.x does not properly check the return value from the IRQ setup check, which allows local HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via unspecified vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3967?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Opensuse, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3967?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-3967 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3967 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Opensuse Opensuse vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3967, GHSA-hg4x-g82c-qxqj, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3967.

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