Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Opensuse and Xen - CVE-2013-3495
Published: August 29, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42621
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-3495
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Xen Project
Xen Project
Affected software:
Opensuse
Xen
Opensuse
Xen
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engine in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a malformed Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) from a PCI device that is bus mastering capable that triggers a System Error Reporting (SERR) Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI).
How to mitigate CVE-2013-3495
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00010.html
- http://osvdb.org/96438
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54341
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/20/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61854
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028931
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-04