CVE-2019-17351 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/xen/balloon.c in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3 as used in Xen through 4.12.x allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of unrestricted resource consumption during the mapping of guest memory aka CID-6ef36ab967c7.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/25/9 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ef36ab967c71690ebe7e5ef997a8be4da3bc844 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4286-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4286-2/ https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5