CVE-2013-0217

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910883

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/12

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.8

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-02-18

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H