CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8341
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The libxl toolstack library in Xen 4.1.x through 4.6.x does not properly release mappings of files used as kernels and initial ramdisks when managing multiple domains in the same process, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) by starting domains.
Affected configurations
• 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
• 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 4.2.4
• xen xen 4.2.5
• xen xen 4.3.0
• xen xen 4.3.1
• xen xen 4.3.2
• xen xen 4.3.3
• xen xen 4.3.4
• xen xen 4.4.0
• xen xen 4.4.1
• xen xen 4.4.2
• xen xen 4.4.3
• xen xen 4.5.0
• xen xen 4.5.1
• xen xen 4.5.2
• xen xen 4.6.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519 www.debian.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034389 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-160.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519 www.debian.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034389 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-160.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 security.gentoo.org