Candidate: CVE-2013-4551 PublicDate: 2013-11-18 02:55:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4551 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/08 http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2013-11/msg00003.html Description: 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." Ubuntu-Description: Notes: seth-arnold> Only 4.2.x and newer are affected mdeslaur> This is XSA-75 Bugs: Priority: medium Discovered-by: Jeff Zimmerman Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_xen-3.3: Tags_xen-3.3: universe-binary upstream_xen-3.3: ignored (reached end-of-life) lucid_xen-3.3: not-affected precise_xen-3.3: DNE quantal_xen-3.3: DNE raring_xen-3.3: DNE saucy_xen-3.3: DNE devel_xen-3.3: DNE Patches_xen: upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2013-11/bin2hKX7luNN5.bin (4.2) upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2013-11/biniGGC75KPr1.bin (4.3) Tags_xen: universe-binary upstream_xen: needed lucid_xen: DNE precise_xen: not-affected quantal_xen: not-affected raring_xen: released (4.2.2-0ubuntu0.13.04.3) saucy_xen: released (4.3.0-1ubuntu1.2) devel_xen: released (4.3.0-1ubuntu2)