CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7971

2.1 LOW Published 2015-10-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-10-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-19

Description

Xen 3.2.x through 4.6.x does not limit the number of printk console messages when logging certain pmu and profiling hypercalls, which allows local guests to cause a denial of service via a sequence of crafted (1) HYPERCALL_xenoprof_op hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the do_xenoprof_op function in common/xenoprof.c, or (2) HYPERVISOR_xenpmu_op hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the do_xenpmu_op function in arch/x86/cpu/vpmu.c.

Affected configurations

• xen xen 3.2.0 • xen xen 3.2.1 • xen xen 3.2.2 • xen xen 3.2.3 • xen xen 3.3.0 • xen xen 3.3.1 • xen xen 3.3.2 • xen xen 3.4.0 • xen xen 3.4.1 • xen xen 3.4.2 • xen xen 3.4.3 • xen xen 3.4.4 • xen xen 4.0.0 • xen xen 4.0.1 • xen xen 4.0.2 • xen xen 4.0.3 • xen xen 4.0.4 • xen xen 4.1.0 • xen xen 4.1.1 • xen xen 4.1.2 • xen xen 4.1.3 • xen xen 4.1.4 • xen xen 4.1.5 • xen xen 4.1.6.1 • xen xen 4.2.0 • xen xen 4.2.1 • xen xen 4.2.2 • xen xen 4.2.3 • xen xen 4.3.0 • xen xen 4.3.1 • xen xen 4.3.2 • xen xen 4.3.4 • xen xen 4.4.0 • xen xen 4.4.1 • xen xen 4.5.0 • xen xen 4.5.1 • xen xen 4.6.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References