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CVE-2014-1895

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-189 Numeric Errors
Publication date:
01/04/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

Off-by-one error in the flask_security_avc_cachestats function in xsm/flask/flask_op.c in Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when the maximum number of physical CPUs are in use, allows local users to cause a denial of service (host crash) or obtain sensitive information from hypervisor memory by leveraging a FLASK_AVC_CACHESTAT hypercall, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
5.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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