Bug 488154 (CVE-2013-2140)

Summary:	Kernel: dispatch_discard_io DoS in Xen blkback (CVE-2013-2140)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	hydrapolic, kernel
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	[ <3.10.5 ]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2013-10-16 01:35:46 UTC

CVE-2013-2140 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2140):
  The dispatch_discard_io function in drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c in
  the Xen blkback implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.10.5 allows
  guest OS users to cause a denial of service (data loss) via filesystem write
  operations on a read-only disk that supports the (1) BLKIF_OP_DISCARD (aka
  discard or TRIM) or (2) SCSI UNMAP feature.

Comment 1 Tomáš Mózes 2018-12-10 09:40:42 UTC

Security, can you please close this obsolete one? Thanks

Comment 2 Tomáš Mózes 2019-10-23 16:55:43 UTC

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