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:

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