CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4551
5.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.7 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when nested virtualization is disabled, does not properly check the emulation paths for (1) VMLAUNCH and (2) VMRESUME, which allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified vectors related to "guest VMX instruction execution."
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.2.0
• xen xen 4.2.1
• xen xen 4.2.2
• xen xen 4.2.3
• xen xen 4.3.0
• xen xen 4.3.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00059.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55398 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/11/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63625 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029313 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88649 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00059.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55398 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/11/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63625 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029313 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88649 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com