Memory leak in Xen - CVE-2013-0152
Published: February 13, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32726
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-0152
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within Xen 4.2 and unstable allows local HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by performing nested virtualization in a way that triggers errors that are not properly handled. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
Xen
Gentoo Linux
xen (Alpine package)
app-emulation/xen
app-emulation/xen-pvgrub
app-emulation/xen-tools
Gentoo Linux
xen (Alpine package)
app-emulation/xen
app-emulation/xen-pvgrub
app-emulation/xen-tools
How to mitigate CVE-2013-0152
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
xen (Alpine package) - update to 4.2.1-r5
app-emulation/xen - update to 4.2.2-r1
app-emulation/xen-pvgrub - update to 4.2.2-r1
app-emulation/xen-tools - update to 4.2.2-r3
app-emulation/xen - update to 4.2.2-r1
app-emulation/xen-pvgrub - update to 4.2.2-r1
app-emulation/xen-tools - update to 4.2.2-r3