CVE-2014-2580: xen Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2014-2580 is a medium (CVSS 4.4) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in xen. EPSS estimates a 0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 4.4, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 15-04-2014PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.34%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
28%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.35% on 05-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- linux< 3.13.10-1
Ubuntu1 product
- linux< 3.13.0-27.50
Xen1 product
- xenna
3 vendors · 3 products
