Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x, when...
Vulnerability Description
Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x, when using shadow pagetables, 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-2014-5146.
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References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69199
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95235
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