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CVE-2014-1895

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.

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Severity

N/A

EPSS

Probability of exploitation (next 30 days): 0.0010 (0.1%)
Percentile: 28.0%
EPSS: 2026-05-06

Affects

xen:xen

Technical description

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.

Published: 4/1/2014, 6:35:53 AM
Last modified: 5/6/2026, 10:30:45 PM

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