CVE-2014-9065

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-17 Code Errors

Publication date:

09/12/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

common/spinlock.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly handle read and write locks, which allows local x86 guest users to cause a denial of service (write denial or NMI watchdog timeout and host crash) via a large number of read requests, a different vulnerability to CVE-2014-9066.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete