Denial of Service Vulnerability in Xen 4.4.x and Earlier

CVE-2014-9065 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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