Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:10985Denial Of Service (Dos)
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
28.1%
xen is vulnerable to denial of service. This is due to the way the pyGrub boot loader handles compressed kernel images, which consumes an excessive amount of CPU resources when a large bzip2 or lzma compressed kernel image is processed, resulting in an out-of-memory condition.
References
bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00024.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00025.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html
secunia.com/advisories/49184
secunia.com/advisories/51413
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/3
www.securityfocus.com/bid/53650
www.securitytracker.com/id?1027090
xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/60f09d1ab1fe
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1130.html
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