CVE-2013-4356 (GCVE-0-2013-4356)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-09 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:38
VLAI
Summary
Xen 4.3.x writes hypervisor mappings to certain shadow pagetables when live migration is performed on hosts with more than 5TB of RAM, which allows local 64-bit PV guests to read or write to invalid memory and cause a denial of service (crash).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1039 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/54962 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/30/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62709 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2013-09-30 00:00
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