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 Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2014-04-15T16:57:00

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


Link: CVE-2014-2580

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

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

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


Link: CVE-2014-2580

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