CVE-2014-8594
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-11-19 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:25
Severity ?
Summary
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).
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