CVE-2014-8594

EPSS 1.3%

xen - security update

Published: 11/19/2014Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

The do_mmu_update function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.x through 4.4.x does not properly restrict updates to only PV page tables, which allows remote PV guests to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging hardware emulation services for HVM guests using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP).

Affected packages (2)

References (1)