Information disclosure in Xen - CVE-2013-4355
Published: October 1, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42509
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4355
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Xen Project
Affected software:
Xen
Xen
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local #AU# to gain access to sensitive information.
Xen 4.3.x and earlier does not properly handle certain errors, which allows local HVM guests to obtain hypervisor stack memory via a (1) port or (2) memory mapped I/O write or (3) other unspecified operations related to addresses without associated memory.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4355
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00009.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1790.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/30/1