CVE-2013-0217

Published: 17 February 2013

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.

From the Ubuntu security team

A memory leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's Xen netback (network backend) driver. A user in a guest OS could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system.

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0217
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/8
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1756-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1760-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1767-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1768-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1769-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1774-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1117331