CVE-2013-4370 Information

Description

The ocaml binding for the xc_vcpu_getaffinity function in Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x frees certain memory that may still be intended for use which allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger a (1) use-after-free or (2) double free.

Reference

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/att-61/xsa69.patch http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/10/13