Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting xen package, versions <4.8.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-XEN-522705
  • published13 Sept 2017
  • disclosed13 Sept 2017

Introduced: 13 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14431  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 xen to version 4.8.1-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Memory leak in Xen 3.3 through 4.8.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (ARM or x86 AMD host OS memory consumption) by continually rebooting, because certain cleanup is skipped if no pass-through device was ever assigned, aka XSA-207.