Resource Management Errors Affecting xen package, versions [4.4.0,4.4.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383873
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jan 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-6268  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The evtchn_fifo_set_pending function in Xen 4.4.x allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving an uninitialized FIFO-based event channel control block when (1) binding or (2) moving an event to a different VCPU.

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