PT-2015-3843 · Xen · Xen

David Vrabel + 1 · Published 2015-01-12 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-6268

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows local guest users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host crash. This can be achieved through vectors involving an uninitialized FIFO-based event channel control block, specifically when binding or moving an event to a different VCPU.

Recommendations For Xen version 4.4.x, consider restricting access to the evtchn fifo set pending function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-6268

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

Affected Products

Xen

References · 136

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6268 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6268 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-6268 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-107.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3672 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7970 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2538 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7969 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8615 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5146 · Note