CVE-2013-2078 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2013-2078 at MITRE

Description

Xen 4.0.2 through 4.0.4, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x allows local PV guest users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) via certain bit combinations to the XSETBV instruction.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.7
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

Note from the SUSE Security Team on the xen package

This issue likely only affects the XEN hypervisor itself, unless otherwise stated. The userland utilities in -tools and libraries in -libs are shipped together with the xen hypervisor as they are built from one source and do not contain hypervisor specific fixes.

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 813673 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 820920 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SU-2013:1075-1, published Tue Jun 25 11:04:14 MDT 2013
SUSE-SU-2013:1314-1, published Fri Aug 9 08:04:11 MDT 2013

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2	`xen >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-devel >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-doc-html >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-doc-pdf >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-default >= 4.1.5_02_3.0.74_0.6.10-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-pae >= 4.1.5_02_3.0.74_0.6.10-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-trace >= 4.1.5_02_3.0.74_0.6.10-0.5.1` `xen-libs >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-libs-32bit >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-tools >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-tools-domU >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1`	Patchnames: sdksp2-xen-201305 sledsp2-xen-201305
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4	`xen-devel >= 4.4.2_08-1.7`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA xen-devel-4.4.2_08-1.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2	`xen >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-devel >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-doc-html >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-doc-pdf >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-default >= 4.1.5_02_3.0.74_0.6.10-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-pae >= 4.1.5_02_3.0.74_0.6.10-0.5.1` `xen-kmp-trace >= 4.1.5_02_3.0.74_0.6.10-0.5.1` `xen-libs >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-libs-32bit >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-tools >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1` `xen-tools-domU >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1`	Patchnames: sdksp2-xen-201305 slessp2-xen-201305
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4	`xen >= 4.4.2_08-1.7` `xen-devel >= 4.4.2_08-1.7` `xen-doc-html >= 4.4.2_08-1.7` `xen-kmp-default >= 4.4.2_08_3.0.101_63-1.7` `xen-kmp-pae >= 4.4.2_08_3.0.101_63-1.7` `xen-libs >= 4.4.2_08-1.7` `xen-libs-32bit >= 4.4.2_08-1.7` `xen-tools >= 4.4.2_08-1.7` `xen-tools-domU >= 4.4.2_08-1.7`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA xen-4.4.2_08-1.7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA xen-devel-4.4.2_08-1.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2	`xen-devel >= 4.1.5_02-0.5.1`	Patchnames: sdksp2-xen-201305

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 1 08:38:09 2019
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 1 12:20:40 2025