SB2021012118 - Denial of service in Xen
Published: January 21, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021012118
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. An HVM guests with PCI pass through devices can perform a denial of service attack by exhausting all IRQ vectors on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.