CVE-2014-7154

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in HVMOP_track_dirty_vram in Xen 4.0.0 through 4.4.x does not ensure possession of the guarding lock for dirty video RAM tracking, which allows certain local guest domains to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1
xen: 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5 (+10)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140418.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140483.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61501
http://secunia.com/advisories/61890
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-42.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3041
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030887
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-104.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140418.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140483.html

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