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.
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Information
Published : 2014-04-15 16:13
Updated : 2014-04-16 06:57
NVD link : CVE-2014-2580
Mitre link : CVE-2014-2580
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CWE
CWE-399
Resource Management Errors
Products Affected
xen
- xen