Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-9066

Title: Opensuse Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-9066.

CWE Category CWE-17
Published Date Dec 09, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.7 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-9066: Xen 4.4.x and earlier, when using a large number of VCPUs, 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 than CVE-2014-9065.

Impacted Vendors

X
xen 1
S
suse 1
X
xensource_inc 1
O
opensuse 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://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/08/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71546 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/71546 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-114.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-2014-9066 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.