CVE-2014-2915

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Xen 4.4.x, when running on ARM systems, does not properly restrict access to hardware features, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host or guest crash) via unspecified vectors, related to (1) cache control, (2) coprocessors, (3) debug registers, and (4) other unspecified registers.

Affected products

xen: 4.4.0, 4.4.0-rc1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/22/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/2
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030135
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-93.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/22/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/23/2
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030135
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-93.html

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