CVE-2015-7812 (GCVE-0-2015-7812)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:58
VLAI
Summary
The hypercall_create_continuation function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a preemptible hypercall to the multicall interface.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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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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      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:13:12+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2015-7812",
      "id": "CVE-2015-7812",
      "initial_release_date": "2015-10-29T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "xen: Host crash when preempting a multicall on ARM",
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-07-31T01:50:13Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2015-7812",
      "id": "CVE-2015-7812",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:13:17Z",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "106",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2015-7812",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2015-7812.json",
      "version": "9"
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  }
}



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