CVE-2013-0215

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

oxenstored in Xen 4.1.x, Xen 4.2.x, and xen-unstable does not properly consider the state of the Xenstore ring during read operations, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and host-control outage, or memory consumption) or obtain sensitive control-plane data by leveraging guest administrative access.

Affected products

xen: 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.2.0 (+1)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/10
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=40f9c5e0a6d15b4ca1f6d4ed3a46f0871520eab5
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61401264eb00fae4ee4efc8e9a5067449283207b
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/10
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=40f9c5e0a6d15b4ca1f6d4ed3a46f0871520eab5
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61401264eb00fae4ee4efc8e9a5067449283207b

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