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CVE-2014-2580

17
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.4MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
2.7
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 1,297 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-2580Moderate

kernel: xen: Linux netback crash trying to disable due to malformed packet

Mar 24, 2014

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/8
securityfocus.com / bid/66386
securitytracker.com / id/1029949
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-90.html
PatchVendor Advisory