Vulnerability in Xen

CVE-2014-2580

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (27.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Xen
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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