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CVE-2014-2580

CVE-2014-2580

EPSS 0.3%
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
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References
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html