2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-7971

Published: 30/10/2015 Updated: 30/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Xen 3.2.x up to and including 4.6.x does not limit the number of printk console messages when logging certain pmu and profiling hypercalls, which allows local guests to cause a denial of service via a sequence of crafted (1) HYPERCALL_xenoprof_op hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the do_xenoprof_op function in common/xenoprof.c, or (2) HYPERVISOR_xenpmu_op hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the do_xenpmu_op function in arch/x86/cpu/vpmu.c.

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Vendor Advisories

Multiple security issues have been found in the Xen virtualisation solution, which may result in denial of service or information disclosure For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), an update will be provided later For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 441-9+deb8u3 For the unstable distribution (sid), ...
Xen 32x through 46x does not limit the number of printk console messages when logging certain pmu and profiling hypercalls, which allows local guests to cause a denial of service via a sequence of crafted (1) HYPERCALL_xenoprof_op hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the do_xenoprof_op function in common/xenoprofc, or (2) HYPERVISOR_x ...