CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-7513
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-02-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-369
Description
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and host OS crash) via a zero value, related to the kvm_vm_ioctl_set_pit and kvm_vm_ioctl_set_pit2 functions.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.4)
• linux linux kernel 4.4
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0185604c2d82c560dab2f2933a18f797e74ab5a8 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176484.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175792.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176194.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/07/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79901 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034602 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2887-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2887-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2888-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2889-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2889-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-3 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284847 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0185604c2d82c560dab2f2933a18f797e74ab5a8 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0185604c2d82c560dab2f2933a18f797e74ab5a8 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176484.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175792.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176194.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/07/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79901 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034602 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2887-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2887-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2888-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2889-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2889-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-3 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284847 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0185604c2d82c560dab2f2933a18f797e74ab5a8 Patch, Third Party Advisory