Upstream information

CVE-2014-3716 at MITRE

Description

Xen 4.4.x does not properly check alignment, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unspecified field in a DTB header in a 32-bit guest kernel.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 1.9
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

Note from the SUSE Security Team on the xen package

This issue likely only affects the XEN hypervisor itself, unless otherwise stated. The userland utilities in -tools and libraries in -libs are shipped together with the xen hypervisor as they are built from one source and do not contain hypervisor specific fixes.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 876091 [RESOLVED / UPSTREAM]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon May 19 20:16:46 2014
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:20:59 2025