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ghsa-whw9-2rv6-633x

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 19:12

Modified

2022-05-24 19:12

Severity ?

4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-28700"
  ],
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    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-whw9-2rv6-633x",
  "modified": "2022-05-24T19:12:22Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T19:12:22Z",
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cve-2021-28700

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-08-27 18:15

Modified

2024-08-03 21:47

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-383.txt	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LPRVHW4J4ZCPPOHZEWP5MOJT7XDGFFPJ/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FZCNPSRPGFCQRYE2BI4D4Q4SCE56ANV2/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4977	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2VQCFAPBNGBBAOMJZG6QBREOG5IIDZID/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

Version: 4.12.x

Version: 4.13.x < unspecified
Patch: next of xen-unstable

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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