CVE-2019-17345 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

A flaw in Xen allows guest users to cause a denial of service via mishandled IOMMU operations during guest cleanup.

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-2019-17345?

CVE-2019-17345 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 8 Oct 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service because mishandling of failed IOMMU operations causes a bug check during the cleanup of a crashed guest.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-17345?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2019-17345?

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-2019-17345 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17345 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2019-17345, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17345, GHSA-ph73-rj9x-9q3g, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17345.

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