Xen Grant Table Transfer Issues on Large Hosts Denial of Service Vulnerability (XSA-284)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. When the code processing grant table transfer requests finds a page with an address too large to be represented in the interface with the guest, it...

grant table transfer issues on large hosts

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When the code processing grant table transfer requests finds a page with an address too large to be represented in the interface with the guest, it allocates a replacement page and copies page contents. However, the code doing so fails to set the newly allocated page's accountin...