CVE-2014-2580
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 15, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 21, 2014
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html
- [oss-security] 20140324 Re: Xen Security Advisory 90 - Linux netback crash trying to disable due to malformed packetmailing-list
- 66386vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20140324 Xen Security Advisory 90 - Linux netback crash trying to disable due to malformed packetmailing-list
- 1029949vdb-entry
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