Bug 1997525 (CVE-2021-28700) - CVE-2021-28700 xen: malicious dom0less guest could drive Xen out of memory and leads to DoS
Summary: CVE-2021-28700 xen: malicious dom0less guest could drive Xen out of memory an...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2021-28700
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1997527
Blocks: 1997570
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-08-25 12:50 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-08-26 15:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-08-26 15:35:41 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-08-25 12:50:11 UTC 
The dom0less feature allows an administrator to create multiple
unprivileged domains directly from Xen.  Unfortunately, the
memory limit from them is not set. This allow a domain to allocate
memory beyond what an administrator originally configured.
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-08-25 12:50:49 UTC 
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1997527]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-08-26 15:35:41 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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