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CVE-2014-2580

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4 EPSS 0.35%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2014-04-15 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.4. It affects Linux. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2014-2580
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.4
EPSS
0.35%
Linux

Original NVD Description

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service ("scheduling while atomic" error and host crash) via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable the interface.