Description
Memory leak in Xen 3.3 through 4.8.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (ARM or x86 AMD host OS memory consumption) by continually rebooting, because certain cleanup is skipped if no pass-through device was ever assigned, aka XSA-207.
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Remediation
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Tracking
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DLA |
DLA-1493-1 | xen security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-5934 | Memory leak in Xen 3.3 through 4.8.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (ARM or x86 AMD host OS memory consumption) by continually rebooting, because certain cleanup is skipped if no pass-through device was ever assigned, aka XSA-207. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T19:27:40.593Z
Reserved: 2017-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-14431
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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-09-13T22:29:00.253
Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
Link: CVE-2017-14431
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Debian DLA
EUVD