CVE-2020-29568

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Some OSes (such as Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) are processing watch events using a single thread. If the events are received faster than the thread is able to handle, they will get queued. As the queue is unbounded, a guest may be able to trigger an OOM in the backend. All systems with a FreeBSD, Linux, or NetBSD (any version) dom0 are vulnerable.

References

https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-349.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4843

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00018.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3