1.9 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The xlu_vif_parse_rate function in the libxlu library in Xen 4.2.x and
4.3.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer
dereference) by using the “@” character as the VIF rate configuration.
Author | Note |
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jdstrand | per upstream, “The only known user of this library is the xl toolstack which does not have a central long running daemon and therefore the impact is limited to crashing the process which is creating the domain, which exists only to service a single domain.” |
mdeslaur | This is XSA-68 |