CVE-2020-29040 (GCVE-0-2020-29040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-24 16:07 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:48
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (stack corruption), cause a data leak, or possibly gain privileges because of an off-by-one error. NOTE: this issue is caused by an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-27671.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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