Description
Memory leak in drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c in the Xen netback functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.8 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering certain error conditions.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910883 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48 ↗
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.8 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/12 ↗