CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8338
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-254
Description
Xen 4.6.x and earlier does not properly enforce limits on page order inputs for the (1) XENMEM_increase_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, (3) XENMEM_exchange, and possibly other HYPERVISOR_memory_op suboperations, which allows ARM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, guest reboot, or watchdog timeout and host reboot) and possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.6.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78920 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034390 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-158.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78920 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034390 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-158.html Vendor Advisory