Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xen package, versions [,4.3.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383893
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Oct 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Oct 2013

CVE-2013-4356  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Xen 4.3.x writes hypervisor mappings to certain shadow pagetables when live migration is performed on hosts with more than 5TB of RAM, which allows local 64-bit PV guests to read or write to invalid memory and cause a denial of service (crash).

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