CVE-2013-0217

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.2 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: 2013-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c in the Xen netback functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.8 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering certain error conditions.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.7.8; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+163)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.8
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/12
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910883
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.8
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/12
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910883
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d5145d8eb2b9791533ffe4dc003b129b9696c48

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