VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2014-2580
CVSS score4.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-04-15
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
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.