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…

published April 15, 2014

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00343 · 26.6th percentile
Published
2014-04-15T17:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 APR 17:00Z
    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…
    cvelistv5