CVE-2013-0216 Information

Description

The Xen netback functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.8 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (loop) by triggering ring pointer corruption.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=48856286b64e4b66ec62b94e504d0b29c1ade664 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00018.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.8 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/12 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910883 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/48856286b64e4b66ec62b94e504d0b29c1ade664