Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting xen package, versions <4.14.1-r0


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Privileges Required High
    Scope Changed
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.05% (13th percentile)
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NVD
6 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE314-XEN-1308548
  • published 1 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 15 Dec 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.14 xen to version 4.14.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.14 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.