Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Xen - CVE-2013-2077
Published: August 29, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32662
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2077
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Xen Project
Affected software:
Xen
Xen
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x does not properly restrict the contents of a XRSTOR, which allows local PV guest users to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-2077
Install update from vendor's website.