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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-12-17T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.416Z

Reserved: 2015-11-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8338

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-12-17T19:59:06.557

Modified: 2016-12-07T18:26:58.550

Link: CVE-2015-8338

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-12-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8338 - Bugzilla