CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-2580

Published: Apr 15, 2014 | Modified: Apr 16, 2014
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xen Xen - -

References