Improper Input Validation Affecting xen package, versions [4.1.0,4.1.6.1][4.2.0,4.2.5][4.3.0,4.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383708
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Nov 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4494  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. Xen before 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x does not take the page_alloc_lock and grant_table.lock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators with access to multiple vcpus to cause a denial of service (host deadlock) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Scores

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