CVE-2018-15470

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x. The logic in oxenstored for handling writes depended on the order of evaluation of expressions making up a tuple. As indicated in section 7.7.3 "Operations on data structures" of the OCaml manual, the order of evaluation of subexpressions is not specified. In practice, different implementations behave differently. Thus, oxenstored may not enforce the configured quota-maxentity. This allows a malicious or buggy guest to write as many xenstore entries as it wishes, causing unbounded memory usage in oxenstored. This can lead to a system-wide DoS.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 03:50

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-272.html - Vendor Advisory () http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-272.html - Vendor Advisory
References () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00013.html - () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00013.html -
References () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 - Third Party Advisory () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-06 - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2018-08-17 18:29

Updated : 2024-11-21 03:50


NVD link : CVE-2018-15470

Mitre link : CVE-2018-15470

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-15470


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Products Affected

xen

  • xen
CWE
CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption