CVE-2013-1432

Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Xen 4.1.x and 4.2.x, when the XSA-45 patch is in place, does not properly maintain references on pages stored for deferred cleanup, which allows local PV guest kernels to cause a denial of service (premature page free and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

xen: 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2 (+3)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX138134
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/26/5
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX138134
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/26/5

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