CVE-2020-29485

Name	CVE-2020-29485
Description	An issue was discovered in Xen 4.6 through 4.14.x. When acting upon a guest XS_RESET_WATCHES request, not all tracking information is freed. A guest can cause unbounded memory usage in oxenstored. This can lead to a system-wide DoS. Only systems using the Ocaml Xenstored implementation are vulnerable. Systems using the C Xenstored implementation are not vulnerable.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-4812-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	bullseye	4.14.6-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1	fixed
	bookworm	4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
xen	source	stretch	(unfixed)	end-of-life
xen	source	buster	4.11.4+57-g41a822c392-2		DSA-4812-1
xen	source	(unstable)	4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1

[stretch] - xen <end-of-life> (DSA 4602-1)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-330.html