Input validation error in Xen - CVE-2014-1893
Published: April 1, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41859
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1893
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Xen Project
Affected software:
Xen
Xen
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FLASK_GETBOOL and (2) FLASK_SETBOOL suboperations in the flask hypercall in Xen 4.1.x, 3.3.x, 3.2.x, and earlier, when XSM is enabled, allow local users to cause a denial of service (processor fault) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1891, CVE-2014-1892, and CVE-2014-1894.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-1893
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/10/8
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-84.html