PT-2013-4978 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Matthew Daley · Published 2013-10-17 · Updated 2017-01-07 · CVE-2013-4370

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.2.x through 4.3.x

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to heap corruption and crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code. This is achieved through unspecified vectors that trigger either a use-after-free or double free error in the ocaml binding for the xc vcpu getaffinity function.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.2.x through 4.3.x, consider applying a patch that fixes the memory handling issue in the ocaml binding for the xc vcpu getaffinity function to prevent use-after-free and double free errors. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4370

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4370 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4370 · Security Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/att-61/xsa69.patch · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/10/13 · Note