CVE-2014-2580

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html