Memory Leak in Xen Netback Driver in Linux Kernel

CVE-2013-0217 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:A/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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