CVE-2019-17351

xen: no grant table and foreign mapping limits leading to crash and DoS

Published Oct 8, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in drivers/xen/balloon.c in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3, as used in Xen through 4.12.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of unrestricted resource consumption during the mapping of guest memory, aka CID-6ef36ab967c7.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-7762 An issue was discovered in drivers/xen/balloon.c in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3, as used in Xen through 4.12.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of unrestricted resource consumption during the mapping of guest memory, aka CID-6ef36ab967c7.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4286-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4286-2 Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 1:40 AM
Reserved
Oct 7, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 8, 2019, 12:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:23 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jul 22, 2019, 12:00 AM