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CVE-2014-9065
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2014-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-17
Description
common/spinlock.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly handle read and write locks, which allows local x86 guest users to cause a denial of service (write denial or NMI watchdog timeout and host crash) via a large number of read requests, a different vulnerability to CVE-2014-9066.
Affected products
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71544
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71544
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
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