UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2580

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2014-2580
Downstream
USN-2226-1
Published: 15 Apr 2014, 00:00
Last modified:22 Apr 2026, 09:38

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

15 Apr 2014, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2026, 09:38
Last Modified
Vulnerability 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.

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•linux

    < 3.13.0-27.50

References (6)