From 3ca9ce371fb88c01c47dd72d1601334fd70a4dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Salvatore Bonaccorso Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:04:17 +0200 Subject: Add proposed description for XSA-300 --- dsa-texts/4.9.168-1+deb9u5 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/dsa-texts/4.9.168-1+deb9u5 b/dsa-texts/4.9.168-1+deb9u5 index 8fcce2293..2b732aa9f 100644 --- a/dsa-texts/4.9.168-1+deb9u5 +++ b/dsa-texts/4.9.168-1+deb9u5 @@ -142,6 +142,13 @@ CVE-2019-14284 user-visible IDs, which could make it easier to exploit other security vulnerabilities. +XSA-300 + + Julien Grall reported that Linux does not limit the amount of memory + which a domain will attempt to baloon out, nor limits the amount of + "foreign / grant map" memory which any individual guest can consume, + leading to denial of service conditions (for host or guests). + For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.9.168-1+deb9u5. -- cgit v1.2.3