CVE-2013-2077 Denial of service in n/a
Local privileged guest users can crash the Xen hypervisor via improper XRSTOR restriction, causing denial of service.
- 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-2013-2077?
CVE-2013-2077 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 28 Aug 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x does not properly restrict the contents of a XRSTOR, which allows local PV guest users to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-2077?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2013-2077?
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-2013-2077 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-2077 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Xen Xen
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2077, GHSA-w7r6-5v3v-j2c3.