CVE-2013-0154 Denial of service in n/a
Local guest administrators can crash the Xen hypervisor via a hypercall when debugging is enabled, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2013-0154?
CVE-2013-0154 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 12 Jan 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The get_page_type function in xen/arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.2, when debugging is enabled, allows local PV or HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors related to a hypercall.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-0154?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2013-0154?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-0154 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2013-0154 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-0154 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mwjq-35h5-gw9f.