# CVE-2013-4370: Use after free in n/a

> Local users can trigger a use-after-free in the Xen hypervisor's OCaml bindings, leading to denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 17 Oct 2013
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4370, GHSA-w68m-2vpj-2rjg

## What is CVE-2013-4370?

CVE-2013-4370 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 17 Oct 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4370?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Xen Xen.

## How do I fix CVE-2013-4370?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2013-4370 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4370 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen

- [CVE-2017-10912](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10912/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2017-10918](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10918/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2017-10920](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10920/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2017-10921](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10921/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2025-27466](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-27466/): Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-4370 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2013-4370 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 17 Oct 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4370 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Xen Xen. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4370/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4370/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4370
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4370
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4370

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4370/
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