CVE-2014-2599

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The HVMOP_set_mem_access HVM control operations in Xen 4.1.x for 32-bit and 4.1.x through 4.4.x for 64-bit allow local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by leveraging access to certain service domains for HVM guests and a large input.

Affected products

xen: 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5 (+9)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/25/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/25/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66407
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029956
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-89.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/25/1

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