CVE-2014-6268

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Xen

First reported 10 years ago

2015-01-12 15:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-08 01:29:00

Affected Software

Xen Xen 4.4.0

4.4.0

Xen 4.4.0 release candidate 1

4.4.0

Xen Xen 4.4.1

4.4.1

References

69753

1030829

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-107.html

Vendor Advisory

xen-fifo-dos(95837)

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