CVE-2014-7154 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2014-7154?

CVE-2014-7154 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 Oct 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in HVMOP_track_dirty_vram in Xen 4.0.0 through 4.4.x does not ensure possession of the guarding lock for dirty video RAM tracking, which allows certain local guest domains to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7154?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Opensuse, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2014-7154?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-7154 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7154 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7154, GHSA-wch3-7x83-fq5h, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7154.