xen — security advisory
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.
- Products
- xen
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.4.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2014-1895
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1895
xen
Fixed versions: 4.4.0-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.4.0-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.4.0-1
Complete source record
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