CVE-2020-29485
Published: 15 December 2020
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.6 through 4.14.x. When acting upon a guest XS_RESET_WATCHES request, not all tracking information is freed. A guest can cause unbounded memory usage in oxenstored. This can lead to a system-wide DoS. Only systems using the Ocaml Xenstored implementation are vulnerable. Systems using the C Xenstored implementation are not vulnerable.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 5.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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xen Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Needed
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| Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) |
Needed
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Needed
|
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Needed
|
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Needed
|
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
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| Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. | ||
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary |