CVE-2019-17351

Summary

CVECVE-2019-17351
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-08 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in drivers/xen/balloon.c in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3, as used in Xen through 4.12.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of unrestricted resource consumption during the mapping of guest memory, aka CID-6ef36ab967c7.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
XSA-300 - Xen Security Advisories CONFIRM xenbits.xen.org
USN-4286-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
XSA-300 - Xen Security Advisories MISC xenbits.xen.org Vendor Advisory
USN-4286-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3 MISC cdn.kernel.org Third Party Advisory
xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages() fail if not enough memory free · torvalds/linux@6ef36ab · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
October 2019 Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
oss-security - Xen Security Advisory 300 v3 (CVE-2019-17351) - Linux: No grant table and foreign mapping limits MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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