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Xen 4.4.x, when running on an ARM system and "handling an unknown system register access from 64-bit userspace," returns to an instruction of the trap handler for kernel space faults instead of an instruction that is associated with faults in 64-bit userspace, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted process

Published Oct 26, 2014

Description

Xen 4.4.x, when running on an ARM system and "handling an unknown system register access from 64-bit userspace," returns to an instruction of the trap handler for kernel space faults instead of an instruction that is associated with faults in 64-bit userspace, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted process.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 26, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jul 30, 2014
Link CVE-2014-5148
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2014-5148
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2014-5148