CVE-2014-1895

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the flask_security_avc_cachestats function in xsm/flask/flask_op.c in Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when the maximum number of physical CPUs are in use, allows local users to cause a denial of service (host crash) or obtain sensitive information from hypervisor memory by leveraging a FLASK_AVC_CACHESTAT hypercall, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected products

xen: 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.3.0, 4.3.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/10/6
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-85.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/10/6
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-85.html

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