Xen 4.0.x and 4.1.x incorrectly releases a grant reference when releasing a non-v1, non-transitive grant, which allows local guest…

Description

Xen 4.0.x and 4.1.x incorrectly releases a grant reference when releasing a non-v1, non-transitive grant, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash), obtain sensitive information, or possibly have other impacts via unspecified vectors.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 59293 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 55082 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20130418 Xen Security Advisory 50 (CVE-2013-1964) - grant table hypercall acquire/release imbalance (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• GLSA-201309-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• DSA-2666 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 1028459 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2014:0446 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• FEDORA-2013-6723 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 15:20 UTC.