PT-2014-4350

CVE-2014-1895

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Published

2014-04-01

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Updated

2017-01-07

Description by

CVSS 2.0
5.8
Medium
MetricsAV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.2.x through 4.3.x
Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the flask security avc cachestats function. This error can be triggered by a FLASK AVC CACHESTAT hypercall when the maximum number of physical CPUs are in use, allowing local users to cause a denial of service (host crash) or obtain sensitive information from hypervisor memory due to a buffer over-read.
Recommendations For Xen versions 4.2.x through 4.3.x, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Weakness enumeration
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