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CVE-2013-1918 Detail

Description

Certain page table manipulation operations in Xen 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and earlier are not preemptible, which allows local PV kernels to cause a denial of service via vectors related to "deep page table traversal."

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  05/13/2013

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.7 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 3.4

Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105533.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2666
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59615

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2013-1918
NVD Published Date:
05/13/2013
NVD Last Modified:
04/19/2014