CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2580
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service ("scheduling while atomic" error and host crash) via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable the interface.
Affected configurations
• xen xen
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html Patch, Vendor Advisory