CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-0151
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-03-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The do_hvm_op function in xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c in Xen 4.2.x on the x86_32 platform does not prevent HVM_PARAM_NESTEDHVM (aka nested virtualization) operations, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (long-duration page mappings and host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to an HVM guest in a domain with a large number of VCPUs.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.2.0
• xen xen 4.2.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/22/10 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d60d7082289a74e44b3dc8f67df46c3404ca08bf xenbits.xen.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/22/10 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d60d7082289a74e44b3dc8f67df46c3404ca08bf xenbits.xen.org