CVE-2020-29486

Published Dec 15, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 6.0 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Nodes in xenstore have an ownership. In oxenstored, a owner could give a node away. However, node ownership has quota implications. Any guest can run another guest out of quota, or create an unbounded number of nodes owned by dom0, thus running xenstored out of memory A malicious guest administrator can cause a denial of service against a specific guest or against the whole host. All systems using oxenstored are vulnerable. Building and using oxenstored is the default in the upstream Xen distribution, if the Ocaml compiler is available. Systems using C xenstored are not vulnerable.

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4812-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-21854 An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Nodes in xenstore have an ownership. In oxenstored, a owner could give a node away. However, node ownership has quota implications. Any guest can run another guest out of quota, or create an unbounded number of nodes owned by dom0, thus running xenstored out of memory A malicious guest administrator can cause a denial of service against a specific guest or against the whole host. All systems using oxenstored are vulnerable. Building and using oxenstored is the default in the upstream Xen distribution, if the Ocaml compiler is available. Systems using C xenstored are not vulnerable.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 4:55 PM
Reserved
Dec 3, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 15, 2020, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:11 AM