CVE-2013-4494

Xen 4.1.0-4.1.6 - Denial of Service via Lock Ordering Deadlock

Title source: llm

Description

Xen before 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x does not take the page_alloc_lock and grant_table.lock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators with access to multiple vcpus to cause a denial of service (host deadlock) via unspecified vectors.

References (9)

Core 9

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/01/2

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/01/3

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0108.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00015.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00059.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0031

EPSS Percentile 53.8%

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (2)

debian/debian_linux 7.0

xen/xen 4.1.0 - 4.1.6.1

Published Nov 02, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026