5.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2013-4553

Published: 24/12/2013 Updated: 07/01/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.2 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 4.4
VMScore: 463
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist hypercall in Xen 3.4.x up to and including 4.3.x (possibly 4.3.1) does not always obtain the page_alloc_lock and mm_rwlock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host deadlock).

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xen xen 4.3.1

xen xen 4.2.0

xen xen 4.1.4

xen xen 4.1.5

xen xen 3.4.0

xen xen 3.4.1

xen xen 4.2.1

xen xen 4.2.2

xen xen 4.1.6.1

xen xen 4.0.0

xen xen 3.4.2

xen xen 3.4.3

xen xen 4.2.3

xen xen 4.1.0

xen xen 4.1.1

xen xen 4.0.1

xen xen 4.0.2

xen xen 3.4.4

xen xen 4.3.0

xen xen 4.1.2

xen xen 4.1.3

xen xen 4.0.3

xen xen 4.0.4

Vendor Advisories

Multiple security issues have been discovered in the Xen virtualisation solution which may result in information leaks or denial of service For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 414-3+deb7u2 For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon We recommend that you upgrade your xen pa ...
The XEN_DOMCTL_getmemlist hypercall in Xen 34x through 43x (possibly 431) does not always obtain the page_alloc_lock and mm_rwlock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host deadlock) ...