CVE-2014-1896
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.9
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."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.4.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.4.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.4.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.4.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.4.0-1 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.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/2014/02/10/7
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-86.html
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa86.patch
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1896
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.