CVE-2015-7814 (GCVE-0-2015-7814)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-10-30 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:58
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Summary
Race condition in the relinquish_memory function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local domains with partial management control to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving the destruction of a domain and using XENMEM_decrease_reservation to reduce the memory of the domain.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-147.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2015-10-29 00:00
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