CVE-2014-1895: Xen

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the flask_security_avc_cachestats function in xsm/flask/flask_op.c in Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when the maximum number of physical CPUs are in use, allows local users to cause a denial of service (host crash) or obtain sensitive information from hypervisor memory by leveraging a FLASK_AVC_CACHESTAT hypercall, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected products

  • Xen Xen: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.2.1 only; version 4.2.2 only; version 4.2.3 only; version 4.3.0 only; version 4.3.1 only

Published 2014-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.