CVE-2013-3495 Denial of service in n/a
A local guest can cause a kernel panic in the Xen hypervisor by sending a malformed MSI from a PCI device, resulting in 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-2013-3495?
CVE-2013-3495 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, 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
The Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engine in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a malformed Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) from a PCI device that is bus mastering capable that triggers a System Error Reporting (SERR) Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI).
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-3495?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Opensuse Opensuse, Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2013-3495?
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-2013-3495 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-3495 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-3495, GHSA-6hmm-m7qc-9hw4.