CVE-2013-1918

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    CVE-2013-1918

    Published: 13 May 2013Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Certain page table manipulation operations in Xen 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and earlier are not preemptible, which allows local PV kernels to cause a denial of service via vectors related to "deep page table traversal."

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/53187, http://secunia.com/advisories/55082, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2666, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105533.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/8, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59615

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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