CVE-2014-2580

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Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published4/15/2014

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

xen:xen

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949(cve@mitre.org)

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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