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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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References
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html ↗
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3 ↗
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ef36ab967c71690ebe7e5ef997a8be4da3bc844 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/25/9 ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4286-2/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4286-1/ ↗