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

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2013-02-18

Updated: 2013-08-22

Type: CWE-399

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5.2

Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 4.4

Severity: MEDIUM