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.
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CVSS 2.0 4.4/10
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:CWeakness enumeration
Affected software
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- Apr 15, 2014
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified