Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting xen package, versions [,4.3.0-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383800
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jan 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jan 2013

CVE-2013-0154  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.3.0-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The get_page_type function in xen/arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.2, when debugging is enabled, allows local PV or HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and hypervisor crash) via unspecified vectors related to a hypercall.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1