CVE-2021-28700
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-27 18:15
Modified
2024-08-03 21:47
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
xen/arm: No memory limit for dom0less domUs The dom0less feature allows an administrator to create multiple unprivileged domains directly from Xen. Unfortunately, the memory limit from them is not set. This allow a domain to allocate memory beyond what an administrator originally configured.
References
Impacted products
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