An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Recording of the per-vCPU control block mapping maintained by Xen and that of pointers into the control block is reversed. The consumer assumes, seeing the former initialized, that the latter are also ready for use. Malicious or buggy guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service (DoS) attack affecting the entire system.
References
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/16/4 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2C6M6S3CIMEBACH6O7V4H2VDANMO6TVA/ | |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OBLV6L6Q24PPQ2CRFXDX4Q76KU776GKI/ | |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4812 | Third Party Advisory |
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-358.html | Patch Vendor Advisory |
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History
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Information
Published : 2020-12-15 17:15
Updated : 2023-11-07 03:21
NVD link : CVE-2020-29570
Mitre link : CVE-2020-29570
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-29570
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Products Affected
xen
- xen
fedoraproject
- fedora
debian
- debian_linux
CWE
CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling