CVE-2010-4247
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 11, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 16, 2010
Description
The do_block_io_op function in (1) drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c and (2) drivers/xen/blktap/blktap.c in Xen before 3.4.0 for the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a large production request index to the blkback or blktap back-end drivers. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 42789third-party-advisory
- ADV-2011-0024vdb-entry
- RHSA-2011:0004vendor-advisory
- 45029vdb-entry
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- 35093third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656206
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/77f831cbb91d
- [oss-security] 20101123 CVE request: xen: request-processing loop is unbounded in blkbackmailing-list
- http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/7070d34f251c
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- [oss-security] 20101124 Re: CVE request: xen: request-processing loop is unbounded in blkbackmailing-list
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