CVE-2013-4551 (GCVE-0-2013-4551)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-11-15 18:16 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI?
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."
Severity ?
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CWE
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Assigner
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63625 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029313 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/55398 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/11/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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