CVE-2013-4551
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-11-15 18:16
Modified
2024-08-06 16:45
Severity ?
Summary
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."
Impacted products
n/an/a
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