CVE-2015-8338 (GCVE-0-2015-8338)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-17 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:13
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78920 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-158.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034390 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2015-12-08 00:00
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