CVE-2014-7155

Name	CVE-2014-7155
Description	The x86_emulate function in arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly check supervisor mode permissions, which allows local HVM users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) or gain guest kernel mode privileges via vectors involving an (1) HLT, (2) LGDT, (3) LIDT, or (4) LMSW instruction.
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)
References	DSA-3041-1
NVD severity	medium

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	stretch (security), stretch	4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12	fixed
	buster, buster (security)	4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	4.14.3-1~deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	4.14.3-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
xen	source	squeeze	(unfixed)	end-of-life
xen	source	wheezy	4.1.4-3+deb7u3		DSA-3041-1
xen	source	(unstable)	4.4.1-3