Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-5146: xen long latency virtual-mmu operations are not preemptible
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(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
08/22/2014
07/25/2018
08/30/2017
09/22/2017
Description
Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x before the xsa97-hap patch, when using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP), 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-2014-5149.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-xen
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