National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3699

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/59f097ef181b

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/59f097ef181b

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0213

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0024

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1024786

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024786

External Source: BID

Name: 45039

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45039

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0004

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 46397

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43056

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43056

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42789

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42789

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42372

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42372

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2011:005

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html