CVE-2013-0215

Description

From CVE.org

oxenstored in Xen 4.1.x, Xen 4.2.x, and xen-unstable does not properly consider the state of the Xenstore ring during read operations, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and host-control outage, or memory consumption) or obtain sensitive control-plane data by leveraging guest administrative access.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of the xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).

The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score4.14.3N/A
Attack VectorAdjacent NetworkAdjacent NetworkN/A
Access ComplexityLowMediumN/A
AuthenticationSingleNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactPartialPartialN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Availability ImpactPartialPartialN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

NVD: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Xen project for reporting this issue.

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