CVE-2014-2580

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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

xen: all versions

References

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

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