CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-17351
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
An 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.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.12.1)
• linux linux kernel (< 5.2.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/25/9 www.openwall.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html xenbits.xen.org
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ef36ab967c71690ebe7e5ef997a8be4da3bc844 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/ security.netapp.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4286-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4286-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/25/9 www.openwall.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html xenbits.xen.org
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ef36ab967c71690ebe7e5ef997a8be4da3bc844 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/ security.netapp.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4286-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4286-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html Vendor Advisory