CVE-2013-0217: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c in the Xen netback functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.8 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering certain error conditions.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.7.8; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.