{"id":"CVE-2010-3699","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2010-3699","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:23.205Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2010-12-08T20:00:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:23:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":2.7,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-399"],"affected":["citrix/xen"],"epss":{"score":0.00714,"percentile":0.5343,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.71%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/42372","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/42789","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/43056","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/46397","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45039","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024786","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/59f097ef181b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/42372","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/42789","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/43056","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/46397","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45039","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024786","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/59f097ef181b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3699","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}