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Xen Denial of Service Vulnerability

Release Date: 3 Mar 2025 1228 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Operating Systems - VM Ware

TYPE: VM Ware

A vulnerability was identified in Xen. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger denial of service condition on the targeted system.


Impact

  • Denial of Service

System / Technologies affected

  • Xen versions 4.0 and later are affected.  

Xen versions 3.4 and earlier are not directly affected, but had other issues.

 

Systems with Intel IOMMU hardware (VT-d) are affected.  Systems using AMD or non-x86 hardware are not affected.

 

Only systems where certain kinds of devices are passed through to an unprivileged guest are vulnerable.


Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the vendor web-site for more details.

 

Apply fixes issued by the vendor:


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