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

Risk Information

CVSS v2