CVE-2019-17350 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Arm guest attackers can cause a denial of service via an infinite loop in the Xen hypervisor's compare-and-exchange operation.

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-2019-17350?

CVE-2019-17350 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 through 4.12.x allowing Arm domU attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) involving a compare-and-exchange operation.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-17350?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2019-17350?

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-2019-17350 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17350 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17350, GHSA-j3j5-w2hq-cw74, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17350.

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