CVE-2010-3699 Information

Description

The backend driver in Xen 3.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a kernel thread leak which prevents the device and guest OS from being shut down or create a zombie domain causes a hang in zenwatch or prevents unspecified xm commands from working properly related to (1) netback (2) blkback or (3) blktap.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42372 http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 http://secunia.com/advisories/43056 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45039 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024786 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213 http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/59f097ef181b