CVE-2010-3699

Severity: low (CVSS 2.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Citrix Xen: 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.2.0 (+10) (and their updates)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42372
http://secunia.com/advisories/42789
http://secunia.com/advisories/43056
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45039
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024786
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213

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