The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #AC (aka Alignment Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c.
References
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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172187.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172300.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172435.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00039.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00053.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2636.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2645.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0046.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202583 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3396 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3454 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/10/6 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77528 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034105 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2800-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2801-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2802-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2803-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2804-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2805-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2806-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2807-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-156.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277172 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5307 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5307 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2015-11-16T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:41:09.291Z

Reserved: 2015-07-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-5307

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-11-16T11:59:05.070

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:32:45.707

Link: CVE-2015-5307

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-5307 - Bugzilla