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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-1642: Xen: Multiple Vunlerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-1642: Xen: Multiple Vunlerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/26/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The IRQ setup in Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using device passthrough and configured to support a large number of CPUs, frees certain memory that may still be intended for use, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and hypervisor crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to an out-of-memory error that triggers a (1) use-after-free or (2) double free.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulations-xen
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulations-xen-pvgrub
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulations-xen-tools

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