PT-2014-4792 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Török Edwin + 1 · Published 2014-04-15 · Updated 2014-05-27 · CVE-2014-2580

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service, resulting in a "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash, by sending a malformed packet. This occurs when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, causing a mutex to be taken when trying to disable the interface.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-2580

USN-2226-1

USN-2260-1

Affected Products

Ubuntu

Xen

References · 43

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2226-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04308 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2580 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1738 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-2580 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04310 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0077 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2580 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1737 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2580 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2260-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2014-00335 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2226-1 · Vendor Advisory