Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8866

Title: Opensuse Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8866.

CWE Category CWE-17
Published Date Dec 01, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.7 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8866: The compatibility mode hypercall argument translation in Xen 3.3.x through 4.4.x, when running on a 64-bit hypervisor, allows local 32-bit HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving altering the high halves of registers while in 64-bit mode.

Impacted Vendors

S
suse 1
D
debian 1
X
xensource_inc 1
O
opensuse 1
X
xen 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/59937 http://secunia.com/advisories/62672 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200288 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201794 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3140 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71332 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-111.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://secunia.com/advisories/59937 http://secunia.com/advisories/62672 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200288 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201794 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3140 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71332 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-111.html 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-2014-8866 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.