CVE-2013-0153 Denial of service in n/a
Guests can cause denial of service by injecting interrupts into other guests due to shared interrupt remapping tables in Xen with AMD-Vi PCI passthrough.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-0153?
CVE-2013-0153 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 14 Feb 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The AMD IOMMU support in Xen 4.2.x, 4.1.x, 3.3, and other versions, when using AMD-Vi for PCI passthrough, uses the same interrupt remapping table for the host and all guests, which allows guests to cause a denial of service by injecting an interrupt into other guests.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-0153?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (18)
kernel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-PAE Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-PAE-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-PAE-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-debug Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-debug-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-debug-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-debuginfo-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-doc Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-headers Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-kdump Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-kdump-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-kdump-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-xen Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-xen-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
kernel-xen-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 |
Products include Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2013-0153?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2013-0153 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-0153 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0153, GHSA-vpjv-xvjr-pg3c, RHSA-2013:0847.