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CVE-2013-0231

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
13/02/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The pciback_enable_msi function in the PCI backend driver (drivers/xen/pciback/conf_space_capability_msi.c) in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to cause a denial of service via a large number of kernel log messages. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
4.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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