CVE-2014-5149

NameCVE-2014-5149
DescriptionCertain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x, when using shadow pagetables, are not preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of service (vcpu consumption) by invoking these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5146.
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Debian Bugs770230

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
xen (PTS)bullseye4.14.6-1fixed
bullseye (security)4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1fixed
bookworm4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
xensourcesqueeze(unfixed)end-of-life
xensource(unstable)4.4.1-4low770230

Notes

[wheezy] - xen <no-dsa> (Minor issue, too intrusive to backport)
[squeeze] - xen <end-of-life> (Unsupported in squeeze-lts)

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