CVE-2013-2078
Published: 14 August 2013
Xen 4.0.2 through 4.0.4, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x allows local PV guest users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via certain bit combinations to the XSETBV instruction.
Priority
Medium
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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xen Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needed
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Patches: Upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2013-06/bin_A0ey2XISB.bin |
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| Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. | ||
|
xen-3.3 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
|
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| seth-arnold | adding "no-xsave" to supervisor mitigates against the problem |
| mdeslaur | This is XSA-54 |