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CVE-2013-0215 (GCVE-0-2013-0215)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-07 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 14:18
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Summary
oxenstored in Xen 4.1.x, Xen 4.2.x, and xen-unstable does not properly consider the state of the Xenstore ring during read operations, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and host-control outage, or memory consumption) or obtain sensitive control-plane data by leveraging guest administrative access.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2013-02-05 00:00
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