CVE-2014-2580

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.4
Exploit probability—
ProductXen
PublishedApr 15, 2014
First seenApr 15, 2014

How to fix

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