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CVE-2014-1891 json

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FLASK_GETBOOL, (2) FLASK_SETBOOL, (3) FLASK_USER, and (4) FLASK_CONTEXT_TO_SID suboperations in the f…

published 2014-04-01 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-1953

cvss
5.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) FLASK_GETBOOL, (2) FLASK_SETBOOL, (3) FLASK_USER, and (4) FLASK_CONTEXT_TO_SID suboperations in the flask hypercall in Xen 4.3.x, 4.2.x, 4.1.x, 3.2.x, and earlier, when XSM is enabled, allow local users to cause a denial of service (processor fault) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1892, CVE-2014-1893, and CVE-2014-1894.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-1891 updated cvss 4.3

xen: integer overflow in several XSM/Flask hypercalls (xsa-84)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel-xen
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.2 AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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