Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x before the xsa97-hap patch, when using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP), are not preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of service (vcpu consumption) by invoking these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5149.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-08-22T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T11:34:37.443Z

Reserved: 2014-07-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-5146

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-08-22T14:55:08.283

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:11:30.110

Link: CVE-2014-5146

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-08-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-5146 - Bugzilla