Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8594

Title: Opensuse Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8594.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Nov 19, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.4 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.33%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8594: The do_mmu_update function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.x through 4.4.x does not properly restrict updates to only PV page tables, which allows remote PV guests to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging hardware emulation services for HVM guests using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP).

Impacted Vendors

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

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62672 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3140 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71149 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-109.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98767 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://secunia.com/advisories/62672 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3140 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71149 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-109.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98767 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.4
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8594 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:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.