CVE-2013-6400

Severity

68%

Complexity

32%

Confidentiality

165%

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d and a PCI device has been assigned, does not clear the flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes when unspecified errors occur, which causes the TLB entries to not be flushed and allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) or gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d and a PCI device has been assigned, does not clear the flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes when unspecified errors occur, which causes the TLB entries to not be flushed and allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) or gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Xen

First reported 11 years ago

2013-12-13 18:55:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2017-01-07 02:59:00

Affected Software

Xen 4.2.0

4.2.0

Xen 4.2.1

4.2.1

Xen 4.2.2

4.2.2

Xen 4.2.3

4.2.3

Xen Xen 4.3.0

4.3.0

Xen 4.3.1

4.3.1

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