CVE-2013-2077

Description

From CVE.org

Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x does not properly restrict the contents of a XRSTOR, which allows local PV guest users to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.

Statement

Not vulnerable.

This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as we did not have support for Xen hypervisor.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score5.75.2N/A
Attack VectorAdjacent NetworkAdjacent NetworkN/A
Access ComplexityMediumMediumN/A
AuthenticationNoneSingleN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Xen project for reporting this issue.

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