CVE-2014-2580

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-03-24
Bugzilla:
1080084: CVE-2014-2580 kernel: xen: Linux netback crash trying to disable due to malformed packet

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-2580 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable.

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

This issue does not affect versions of Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 as they do not have support for Xen hypervisor.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5.2
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel-xen Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Török Edwin for discovering this bug.

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