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CVE-2014-2580
Published: Apr 15, 2014
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html
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[oss-security] 20140324 Re: Xen Security Advisory 90 - Linux netback crash trying to disable due to malformed packet
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[oss-security] 20140324 Xen Security Advisory 90 - Linux netback crash trying to disable due to malformed packet
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