CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-29486

6.0 MEDIUM Published 2020-12-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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 Xen through 4.14.x. Nodes in xenstore have an ownership. In oxenstored, a owner could give a node away. However, node ownership has quota implications. Any guest can run another guest out of quota, or create an unbounded number of nodes owned by dom0, thus running xenstored out of memory A malicious guest administrator can cause a denial of service against a specific guest or against the whole host. All systems using oxenstored are vulnerable. Building and using oxenstored is the default in the upstream Xen distribution, if the Ocaml compiler is available. Systems using C xenstored are not vulnerable.

Affected configurations

• xen xen (<= 4.14.0) • debian debian linux 10.0 • fedoraproject fedora 32 • fedoraproject fedora 33

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References