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CVE-2014-5146
Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x before the xsa97-hap patch, when using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP),…
Medium4.7EPSS 0.43%
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Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.7 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (9)
- GLSA-201504-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 69198 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-9472 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 1030723 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- xen-cve20145146-dos(95234) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-9493 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0226 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0256 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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