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CVE-2014-2580

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.

Published

2014-04-15T23:13:13.337

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.4 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

2.7

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	xen	xen	-	Yes

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949 ([email protected])
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)