Bug 1140271 (CVE-2014-7156) - CVE-2014-7156 kernel: xen: Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of software interrupts (XSA-106)
Summary: CVE-2014-7156 kernel: xen: Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-7156
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1145738
Blocks: 1140259
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Reported: 2014-09-10 15:39 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-12 05:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-09-10 15:43:09 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2014-09-10 15:39:24 UTC 
The emulation of instructions which generate software interrupts fails
to perform supervisor mode permission checks.

Malicious HVM guest user mode code may be able to crash the guest.

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Red Hat would like to thank the Xen for reporting this issue.
Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2014-09-10 15:43:09 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Comment 4 Petr Matousek 2014-09-23 15:22:32 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1145738]
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