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, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-3041-1
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.lts1-8	fixed
	jessie	4.4.1-9+deb8u9	fixed
	jessie (security)	4.4.1-9+deb8u10	fixed
	buster, sid, stretch	4.8.1-1+deb9u1	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.8.1-1+deb9u3	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)	4.4.1-3	medium
xen	source	squeeze	(unfixed)	end-of-life
xen	source	wheezy	4.1.4-3+deb7u3	medium	DSA-3041-1