CVE-2013-0152 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published 13 Feb 2013 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Local HVM guests can cause host memory exhaustion and denial of service via improper handling of nested virtualization errors in Xen.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2013-0152?

CVE-2013-0152 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Xen Xen, published on 13 Feb 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in Xen 4.2 and unstable allows local HVM guests to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by performing nested virtualization in a way that triggers errors that are not properly handled.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-0152?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2013-0152?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-0152 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-0152 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Xen Xen vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-8fhh-36mp-w68w.