CVE-2014-2986

Name	CVE-2014-2986
Description	The vgic_distr_mmio_write function in the virtual guest interrupt controller (GIC) distributor (arch/arm/vgic.c) in Xen 4.4.x, when running on an ARM system, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host crash) via unspecified vectors.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	wheezy	4.1.4-3+deb7u9	fixed
	wheezy (security)	4.1.6.lts1-14	fixed
	jessie (security), jessie	4.4.1-9+deb8u10	fixed
	buster, sid, stretch	4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u7	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
xen	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- xen <not-affected> (Only 32-bit and 64-bit ARM systems are vulnerable from Xen 4.4 onwards)