CVE-2014-2580
N/A
Published: April 15, 2014 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:06 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (5)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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