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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T10:21:35.216Z
Reserved: 2014-03-21T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-2580

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2014-04-15T23:13:13.337
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2014-2580
