VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3699

low
Published 2010-12-08 · Modified 2026-04-29
💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.7

Description

The backend driver in Xen 3.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a kernel thread leak, which prevents the device and guest OS from being shut down or create a zombie domain, causes a hang in zenwatch, or prevents unspecified xm commands from working properly, related to (1) netback, (2) blkback, or (3) blktap.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
citrixxen3.0.2
citrixxen3.0.3
citrixxen3.0.4
citrixxen3.1.3
citrixxen3.1.4
citrixxen3.2.0
citrixxen3.2.1
citrixxen3.2.2
citrixxen3.2.3
citrixxen3.3.0
citrixxen3.3.1
citrixxen3.3.2
citrixxen3.4.0
citrixxen3.4.1
citrixxen3.4.2
citrixxen3.4.3

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.