CVE-2014-2580 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Xen netback driver, specifically affecting certain Linux versions that disallow sleeping in softirq context. A local guest administrator can trigger a host crash by sending a malformed packet, leading to a "scheduling while atomic" error. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.4, indicating medium attack complexity and requiring local access with low privileges to achieve a complete availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
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