Resource Exhaustion Affecting linux-4.19 package, versions <4.19.160-2~deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-LINUX419-1048667
  • published23 Oct 2020
  • disclosed22 Oct 2020

Introduced: 22 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-27673  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 linux-4.19 to version 4.19.160-2~deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-4.19 package and not the linux-4.19 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. Guest OS users can cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a high rate of events to dom0, aka CID-e99502f76271.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1