CVE-2013-2078

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Xen 4.0.2 through 4.0.4, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x allows local PV guest users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via certain bit combinations to the XSETBV instruction.

Affected products

xen: 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2 (+6)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/03/3
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028613
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/03/3
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028613

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