CVE-2013-0217

Severity

52%

Complexity

44%

Confidentiality

115%

Memory leak in drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c in the Xen netback functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.8 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering certain error conditions.

Memory leak in drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c in the Xen netback functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.8 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering certain error conditions.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.2. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2013-02-18 04:41:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-08-22 06:48:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 1

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 2

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 3

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 4

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 5

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 6

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 7

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0.1

3.0.1

Linux Kernel 3.0.2

3.0.2

Linux Kernel 3.0.3

3.0.3

Linux Kernel 3.0.4

3.0.4

Linux Kernel 3.0.5

3.0.5

Linux Kernel 3.0.6

3.0.6

Linux Kernel 3.0.7

3.0.7

Linux Kernel 3.0.8

3.0.8

Linux Kernel 3.0.9

3.0.9

Linux Kernel 3.0.10

3.0.10

Linux Kernel 3.0.11

3.0.11

Linux Kernel 3.0.12

3.0.12

Linux Kernel 3.0.13

3.0.13

Linux Kernel 3.0.14

3.0.14

Linux Kernel 3.0.15

3.0.15

Linux Kernel 3.0.16

3.0.16

Linux Kernel 3.0.17

3.0.17

Linux Kernel 3.0.18

3.0.18

Linux Kernel 3.0.19

3.0.19

Linux Kernel 3.0.20

3.0.20

Linux Kernel 3.0.21

3.0.21

Linux Kernel 3.0.22

3.0.22

Linux Kernel 3.0.23

3.0.23

Linux Kernel 3.0.24

3.0.24

Linux Kernel 3.0.25

3.0.25

Linux Kernel 3.0.26

3.0.26

Linux Kernel 3.0.27

3.0.27

Linux Kernel 3.0.28

3.0.28

Linux Kernel 3.0.29

3.0.29

Linux Kernel 3.0.30

3.0.30

Linux Kernel 3.0.31

3.0.31

Linux Kernel 3.0.32

3.0.32

Linux Kernel 3.0.33

3.0.33

Linux Kernel 3.0.34

3.0.34

Linux Kernel 3.0.35

3.0.35

Linux Kernel 3.0.36

3.0.36

Linux Kernel 3.0.37

3.0.37

Linux Kernel 3.0.38

3.0.38

Linux Kernel 3.0.39

3.0.39

Linux Kernel 3.0.40

3.0.40

Linux Kernel 3.0.41

3.0.41

Linux Kernel 3.0.42

3.0.42

Linux Kernel 3.0.43

3.0.43

Linux Kernel 3.0.44

3.0.44

Linux Kernel 3.1

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1 release candidate 1

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1 release candidate 2

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1 release candidate 3

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1 release candidate 4

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1.1

3.1.1

Linux Kernel 3.1.2

3.1.2

Linux Kernel 3.1.3

3.1.3

Linux Kernel 3.1.4

3.1.4

Linux Kernel 3.1.5

3.1.5

Linux Kernel 3.1.6

3.1.6

Linux Kernel 3.1.7

3.1.7

Linux Kernel 3.1.8

3.1.8

Linux Kernel 3.1.9

3.1.9

Linux Kernel 3.1.10

3.1.10

Linux Kernel 3.2

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 2

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 3

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 4

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 5

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 6

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 7

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2.1

3.2.1

Linux Kernel 3.2.2

3.2.2

Linux Kernel 3.2.3

3.2.3

Linux Kernel 3.2.4

3.2.4

Linux Kernel 3.2.5

3.2.5

Linux Kernel 3.2.6

3.2.6

Linux Kernel 3.2.7

3.2.7

Linux Kernel 3.2.8

3.2.8

Linux Kernel 3.2.9

3.2.9

Linux Kernel 3.2.10

3.2.10

Linux Kernel 3.2.11

3.2.11

Linux Kernel 3.2.12

3.2.12

Linux Kernel 3.2.13

3.2.13

Linux Kernel 3.2.14

3.2.14

Linux Kernel 3.2.15

3.2.15

Linux Kernel 3.2.16

3.2.16

Linux Kernel 3.2.17

3.2.17

Linux Kernel 3.2.18

3.2.18

Linux Kernel 3.2.19

3.2.19

Linux Kernel 3.2.20

3.2.20

Linux Kernel 3.2.21

3.2.21

Linux Kernel 3.2.22

3.2.22

Linux Kernel 3.2.23

3.2.23

Linux Kernel 3.2.24

3.2.24

Linux Kernel 3.2.25

3.2.25

Linux Kernel 3.2.26

3.2.26

Linux Kernel 3.2.27

3.2.27

Linux Kernel 3.2.28

3.2.28

Linux Kernel 3.2.29

3.2.29

Linux Kernel 3.2.30

3.2.30

Linux Kernel 3.3

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 1

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 2

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 3

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 4

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 5

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 6

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 7

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3.1

3.3.1

Linux Kernel 3.3.2

3.3.2

Linux Kernel 3.3.3

3.3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3.4

3.3.4

Linux Kernel 3.3.5

3.3.5

Linux Kernel 3.3.6

3.3.6

Linux Kernel 3.3.7

3.3.7

Linux Kernel 3.3.8

3.3.8

Linux Kernel 3.4

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 1

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 2

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 3

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 4

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 5

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 6

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 7

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4.1

3.4.1

Linux Kernel 3.4.2

3.4.2

Linux Kernel 3.4.3

3.4.3

Linux Kernel 3.4.4

3.4.4

Linux Kernel 3.4.5

3.4.5

Linux Kernel 3.4.6

3.4.6

Linux Kernel 3.4.7

3.4.7

Linux Kernel 3.4.8

3.4.8

Linux Kernel 3.4.9

3.4.9

Linux Kernel 3.4.10

3.4.10

Linux Kernel 3.4.11

3.4.11

Linux Kernel 3.4.12

3.4.12

Linux Kernel 3.4.13

3.4.13

Linux Kernel 3.4.14

3.4.14

Linux Kernel 3.4.15

3.4.15

Linux Kernel 3.4.16

3.4.16

Linux Kernel 3.4.17

3.4.17

Linux Kernel 3.4.18

3.4.18

Linux Kernel 3.4.19

3.4.19

Linux Kernel 3.4.20

3.4.20

Linux Kernel 3.4.21

3.4.21

Linux Kernel 3.4.22

3.4.22

Linux Kernel 3.4.23

3.4.23

Linux Kernel 3.4.24

3.4.24

Linux Kernel 3.5.1

3.5.1

Linux Kernel 3.5.2

3.5.2

Linux Kernel 3.5.3

3.5.3

Linux Kernel 3.5.4

3.5.4

Linux Kernel 3.5.5

3.5.5

Linux Kernel 3.5.6

3.5.6

Linux Kernel 3.5.7

3.5.7

Linux Kernel 3.6.9

3.6.9

Linux Kernel 3.6.10

3.6.10

Linux Kernel 3.6.11

3.6.11

Linux Kernel 3.7

3.7

Linux Kernel 3.7.1

3.7.1

Linux Kernel 3.7.2

3.7.2

Linux Kernel 3.7.3

3.7.3

Linux Kernel 3.7.4

3.7.4

Linux Kernel 3.7.5

3.7.5

Linux Kernel 3.7.6

3.7.6

Linux Kernel 3.7.7

3.7.7

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48

Patch

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.8

MDVSA-2013:176

[oss-security] 20130205 Xen Security Advisory 39 (CVE-2013-0216,CVE-2013-0217) - Linux netback DoS via malicious guest ring.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910883

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48

Patch

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