CVE-2014-2580 (GCVE-0-2014-2580)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-15 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:21
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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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2286 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2014-03-24 00:00
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