CVE-2019-17351 (GCVE-0-2019-17351)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-10-08 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:40
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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