7.4 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
The XSA-45/CVE-2013-1918 patch making error handling paths preemptible broke page reference counting by not retaining a reference on pages stored for deferred cleanup. This would lead to the hypervisor prematurely attempting to free the page, generally crashing upon finding the page still in use.