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CVE-2019-17351
An issue was discovered in drivers/xen/balloon.c in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3, as used in Xen through 4.12.x, allowing guest OS users…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.41%
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Description
An issue was discovered in drivers/xen/balloon.c in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3, as used in Xen through 4.12.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of unrestricted resource consumption during the mapping of guest memory, aka CID-6ef36ab967c7.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (8)
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ef36ab967c71690ebe7e5ef997a8be4da3bc844 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20191025 Xen Security Advisory 300 v3 (CVE-2019-17351) - Linux: No grant table and foreign mapping limits (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-4286-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-4286-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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