CVE-2013-4553

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist hypercall in Xen 3.4.x through 4.3.x (possibly 4.3.1) does not always obtain the page_alloc_lock and mm_rwlock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host deadlock).

Affected products

xen: 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 4.0.0 (+17)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00059.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/26/8
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00059.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/26/8

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