CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-1896
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The (1) do_send and (2) do_recv functions in io.c in libvchan in Xen 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 4.4-RC series allows local guests to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges via crafted xenstore ring indexes, which triggers a "read or write past the end of the ring."
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.2.0
• xen xen 4.2.1
• xen xen 4.2.2
• xen xen 4.2.3
• xen xen 4.3.0
• xen xen 4.3.1
• xen xen 4.4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/10/7 www.openwall.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-86.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa86.patch Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/10/7 www.openwall.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-86.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa86.patch Patch