CVE-2013-4551

Publication date 18 November 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when nested virtualization is disabled, does not properly check the emulation paths for (1) VMLAUNCH and (2) VMRESUME, which allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified vectors related to “guest VMX instruction execution.”

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
xen	13.10 saucy	Fixed 4.3.0-1ubuntu1.2
	13.04 raring	Fixed 4.2.2-0ubuntu0.13.04.3
	12.10 quantal	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release
xen-3.3	13.10 saucy	Not in release
	13.04 raring	Not in release
	12.10 quantal	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

Only 4.2.x and newer are affected

mdeslaur

This is XSA-75

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
xen	Upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2013-11/bin2hKX7luNN5.bin Upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2013-11/biniGGC75KPr1.bin