CVE-2014-4021

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-4021
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-06-18 19:55:04 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionXen 3.2.x through 4.4.x does not properly clean memory pages recovered from guests, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.7 from [email protected]

AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Adjacent
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Xen Xen 3.2.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 3.2.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 3.2.2 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 3.2.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.2 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.0.4 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.2 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.4 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.5 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.1.6.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.2.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.2.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.2.2 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.2.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.3.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.3.1 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.4.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.4.0 rc1 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
XSA-100 - Xen Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xenbits.xen.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2014:1281-1: important: xen: security an af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: xen-4.3.2-6.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2014-0926 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 linux.oracle.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA59208 - Xen Hypervisor Memory Contents Disclosure Security Issue - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2014-0926-1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 linux.oracle.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Xen: Multiple Vunlerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Citrix XenServer Multiple Security Updates af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.citrix.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: xen-4.2.4-6.fc19 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2014:1279-1: important: xen: security an af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Xen CVE-2014-4021 Information Disclosure Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3006-1 xen af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Xen Lets Local Guests Obtain Hypervisor Heap Memory Contents - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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