Security Advisory

CVE-2013-0151

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-07 02:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 14:18:09
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The do_hvm_op function in xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c in Xen 4.2.x on the x86_32 platform does not prevent HVM_PARAM_NESTEDHVM (aka nested virtualization) operations, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (long-duration page mappings and host OS crash) by leveraging administrative access to an HVM guest in a domain with a large number of VCPUs.