CVE detail
CVE-2014-2580 — CVE-2014-2580
Published 2014-04-15 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor xen · Product xen · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0035
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
27.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References