Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-5146

Title: Opensuse Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-5146.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Aug 22, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.7 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

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), 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.

Impacted Vendors

X
xensource_inc 1
O
opensuse 1
X
xen 1
S
suse 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69198 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030723 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-97.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95234 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.7
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-5146 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.