CVE-2013-0231 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-0231?

CVE-2013-0231 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 13 Feb 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The pciback_enable_msi function in the PCI backend driver (drivers/xen/pciback/conf_space_capability_msi.c) in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to cause a denial of service via a large number of kernel log messages. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-0231?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2013-0231?

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-2013-0231 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-0231 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0231, GHSA-p9q5-jhcx-489h.