Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-90.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66386
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029949
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.