CVE-2014-2580 | BDVDB-2026-60955 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12014-04-15Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.