CVE-2014-5149: opensuse Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2014-5149 is a medium (CVSS 4.7) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in opensuse. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 4.7, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 22-08-2014PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Certain MMU virtualization operations in Xen 4.2.x through 4.4.x, when using shadow pagetables, are not preemptible, which allows local HVM guest to cause a denial of service (vcpu consumption) by invoking these operations, which process every page assigned to a guest, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5146.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.43%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
37%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.43% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- xen< 4.4.1-4
Opensuse1 product
- opensuseEOL13.1 | 13.2
Xen1 product
- xen4.2.0 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.1 | 4.4.0
3 vendors · 3 products
References
10 links- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136980.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136981.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEThird Party Advisory