An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Recording of the per-vCPU control block mapping maintained by Xen and that of pointers into the control block is reversed. The consumer assumes, seeing the former initialized, that the latter are also ready for use. Malicious or buggy guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service (DoS) attack affecting the entire system.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2020-12-15T17:01:36
Updated: 2024-08-04T16:55:10.399Z
Reserved: 2020-12-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-29570
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-12-15T17:15:14.753
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:24:13.620
Link: CVE-2020-29570
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