CVE-2014-1891

Publication date 1 April 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FLASK_GETBOOL, (2) FLASK_SETBOOL, (3) FLASK_USER, and (4) FLASK_CONTEXT_TO_SID suboperations in the flask hypercall in Xen 4.3.x, 4.2.x, 4.1.x, 3.2.x, and earlier, when XSM is enabled, allow local users to cause a denial of service (processor fault) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1892, CVE-2014-1893, and CVE-2014-1894.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xen 13.10 saucy
Fixed 4.3.0-1ubuntu1.3
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
xen-3.3 13.10 saucy Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

This is XSA-84 4.2 and higher

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