CVE-2014-2580
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-04-15 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:21
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949
cve@mitre.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
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