CVE-2013-1918 Information

Description

Certain page table manipulation operations in Xen 4.1.x 4.2.x and earlier are not preemptible which allows local PV kernels to cause a denial of service via vectors related to \deep page table traversal.\

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105533.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html http://secunia.com/advisories/53187 http://secunia.com/advisories/55082 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2666 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59615