CVE-2013-1918

Publication date 13 May 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.”

Read the notes from the security team

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xen 13.04 raring
Fixed 4.2.1-0ubuntu3.2
12.10 quantal
Fixed 4.1.3-3ubuntu1.6
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 4.1.2-2ubuntu2.9
11.10 oneiric Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
xen-3.1 13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
11.10 oneiric Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
xen-3.2 13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
11.10 oneiric Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
xen-3.3 13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
11.10 oneiric Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary This is XSA-45

seth-arnold

Fix was incomplete / incorrect; see also CVE-2013-1432