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Re: Xen Security Advisory 94 - ARM hypervisor crash on guest interrupt controller access

From: cve-assign () mitre org
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:19:02 -0400 (EDT)

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XSA-94

When handling a guest access to the virtual GIC distributor (interrupt
controller) Xen could dereference a pointer before checking it for
validity leading to a hypervisor crash and host Denial of Service.

A buggy or malicious guest can crash the host.


Use CVE-2014-2986.

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