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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3633-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8222 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.
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00068}

epss

{'score': 0.00199}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2015-8338

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-8338

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2015-8338 - Bugzilla

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