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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-04-15T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:21:35.216Z

Reserved: 2014-03-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-2580

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2014-04-15T23:13:13.337

Modified: 2014-04-16T13:57:39.067

Link: CVE-2014-2580

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-03-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-2580 - Bugzilla