PT-2014-5642 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Jan Beulich · Published 2014-06-05 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2014-3968

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.2.x through 4.4.x

Description The issue allows local guest HVM administrators to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host crash, by sending a large number of crafted requests. This triggers error messages to be logged.

Recommendations For Xen versions 4.2.x through 4.4.x, consider restricting access to the HVMOP inject msi function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-3968

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1279-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1281-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 52

• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-96.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134739.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3968 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3968 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3968 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3968 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3968 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04319 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134710.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3968 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3968 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858178 · Note