CVE-2014-2580

Published Apr 15, 2014

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.4
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 2.7
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "BFA1950D-1D9F-4401-AA86-CF3028EFD286"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References