Description
The backend driver in Xen 3.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a kernel thread leak, which prevents the device and guest OS from being shut down or create a zombie domain, causes a hang in zenwatch, or prevents unspecified xm commands from working properly, related to (1) netback, (2) blkback, or (3) blktap.
Published: 2010-12-08
Score: 2.7 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2153-1 linux-2.6 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-3683 The backend driver in Xen 3.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a kernel thread leak, which prevents the device and guest OS from being shut down or create a zombie domain, causes a hang in zenwatch, or prevents unspecified xm commands from working properly, related to (1) netback, (2) blkback, or (3) blktap.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1072-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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Citrix Xen
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:18:53.085Z

Reserved: 2010-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-3699

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-12-08T20:00:01.087

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-3699

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-11-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-3699 - Bugzilla

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