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title: "CVE-2014-1893\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2014-1893

Publication date 1 April 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FLASK\_GETBOOL and (2) FLASK\_SETBOOL
suboperations in the flask hypercall in Xen 4.1.x, 3.3.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-2014-1891, CVE-2014-1892, and CVE-2014-1894.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1893?format=md#notes)

## Status

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| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| xen | 13.10 saucy | Not affected |
| 12.10 quantal | Fixed 4.1.5-0ubuntu0.12.10.3 |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Fixed 4.1.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.3 |
| 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 | Ignored end of life |

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## Notes

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### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur)

This is XSA-84
3.3-4.1 only

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1893)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1893)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2014-1893)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1893)

### Other references

* <http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2014-02/msg00005.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1893>
