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    CVE-2014-1642

    The IRQ setup in Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using device passthrough and configured to support a large number of CPUs, frees certain memory that may still be intended for use, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and hypervisor crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to an out-of-memory error that triggers a (1) use-after-free or (2) double free.

    Published:Jan 23, 2014
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Jan 26, 2014
    EPSS Score:0.00178
    CVSS Score:4.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Xen
    Product
    Xen

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    References

    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127580.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127607.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html
    http://osvdb.org/102406
    http://secunia.com/advisories/56557
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/23/4
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65097
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029679
    http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-83.html
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90649
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127580.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127607.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html
    http://osvdb.org/102406
    http://secunia.com/advisories/56557
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/23/4
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65097
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029679
    http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-83.html
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90649

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High