Security Advisory

CVE-2013-1917

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-05-13 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 15:20:37
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Xen 3.1 through 4.x, when running 64-bit hosts on Intel CPUs, does not clear the NT flag when using an IRET after a SYSENTER instruction, which allows PV guest users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) by triggering a #GP fault, which is not properly handled by another IRET instruction.