An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x. The logic in oxenstored for handling writes depended on the order of evaluation of expressions making up a tuple. As indicated in section 7.7.3 "Operations on data structures" of the OCaml manual, the order of evaluation of subexpressions is not specified. In practice, different implementations behave differently. Thus, oxenstored may not enforce the configured quota-maxentity. This allows a malicious or buggy guest to write as many xenstore entries as it wishes, causing unbounded memory usage in oxenstored. This can lead to a system-wide DoS.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-08-17T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T09:54:03.606Z

Reserved: 2018-08-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-15470

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-17T18:29:00.977

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:50:52.667

Link: CVE-2018-15470

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-08-14T17:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-15470 - Bugzilla