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CVE-2020-29570

Date: December 15, 2020

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Recording of the per-vCPU control block mapping maintained by Xen and that of pointers into the control block is reversed. The consumer assumes, seeing the former initialized, that the latter are also ready for use. Malicious or buggy guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service (DoS) attack affecting the entire system.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-29570
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/16/4
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OBLV6L6Q24PPQ2CRFXDX4Q76KU776GKI/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29570
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2C6M6S3CIMEBACH6O7V4H2VDANMO6TVA/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29570
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4812
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-29570
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-358.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-29570

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-770

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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