PT-2018-13039 · Xen+1 · Xen+1

Christian Lindig · Published 2018-08-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-15470

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions prior to 4.12

Description An issue in the logic of oxenstored for handling writes allows a malicious or buggy guest to write an unbounded number of xenstore entries, causing unbounded memory usage in oxenstored. This can lead to a system-wide denial of service.

Recommendations For Xen versions prior to 4.12, update to version 4.12 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-15470

DLA-1577-1

DSA-4274-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4304-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3490-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1

Affected Products

Suse

Xen

References · 130

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11520-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3490-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1577-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4274-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-15470 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-272.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15470 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15470 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-15470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1 · Vendor Advisory