Security Advisory
CVE-2014-9065
4.4
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
December 9, 2014
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory