CVE-2013-0215 (GCVE-0-2013-0215)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-07 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 14:18
VLAI
Summary
oxenstored in Xen 4.1.x, Xen 4.2.x, and xen-unstable does not properly consider the state of the Xenstore ring during read operations, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and host-control outage, or memory consumption) or obtain sensitive control-plane data by leveraging guest administrative access.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1082 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2013-02-05 00:00
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