Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-3699

Title: Citrix Xen Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-3699.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Dec 08, 2010

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.7 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-3699: 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.

Impacted Vendors

xensource_inc 1

citrix 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42372 http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 http://secunia.com/advisories/43056 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45039 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024786 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213 http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/59f097ef181b http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42372 http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 http://secunia.com/advisories/43056 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45039 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024786 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213 http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/59f097ef181b

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.7

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-3699 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 08, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.