CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-1950
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-02-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the xc_cpupool_getinfo function in Xen 4.1.x through 4.3.x, when using a multithreaded toolstack, does not properly handle a failure by the xc_cpumap_alloc function, which allows local users with access to management functions to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.1.1
• xen xen 4.1.2
• xen xen 4.1.3
• xen xen 4.1.4
• xen xen 4.1.5
• xen xen 4.1.6.1
• 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
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/12/17 www.openwall.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-88.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/12/17 www.openwall.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-88.html Vendor Advisory