CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-4553

5.2 MEDIUM Published 2013-12-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-12-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.2 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist hypercall in Xen 3.4.x through 4.3.x (possibly 4.3.1) does not always obtain the page_alloc_lock and mm_rwlock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host deadlock).

Affected configurations

• xen xen 3.4.0 • xen xen 3.4.1 • xen xen 3.4.2 • xen xen 3.4.3 • xen xen 3.4.4 • xen xen 4.0.0 • xen xen 4.0.1 • xen xen 4.0.2 • xen xen 4.0.3 • xen xen 4.0.4 • xen xen 4.1.0 • xen xen 4.1.1 • xen xen 4.1.2 • xen xen 4.1.3 • xen xen 4.1.4 • xen xen 4.1.5 • xen xen 4.1.6.1 • 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-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References