VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-17351
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…
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.41%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.41%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.41% probability · 34th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Affected
- xen/xen · linux/linux kernel
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- 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-5.2.3Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ef36ab967c71690ebe7e5ef997a8be4da3bc844Patch, Third Party Advisory
- 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.htmlVendor Advisory
- 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-5.2.3Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ef36ab967c71690ebe7e5ef997a8be4da3bc844Patch, Third Party Advisory
- 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.htmlVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.