CVE-2013-4494 (GCVE-0-2013-4494)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-11-02 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Xen before 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x does not take the page_alloc_lock and grant_table.lock in the same order, which allows local guest administrators with access to multiple vcpus to cause a denial of service (host deadlock) via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/01/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/01/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0108.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3006 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-1… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
Date Public
2013-11-01 00:00
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"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2013/cve-2013-4494.json",
"version": "3"
},
"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-08-01T00:25:48Z",
"cve": "CVE-2013-4494",
"id": "CVE-2013-4494",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:35:50Z",
"product_status:recommended": "255",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2013-4494",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2013-4494.json",
"version": "9"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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