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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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Debian DSA |
DSA-3633-1 | xen security update |
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
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.416Z
Reserved: 2015-11-25T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-8338
No data.
Status : Deferred
Published: 2015-12-17T19:59:06.557
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-8338
OpenCVE Enrichment
No data.
Debian DSA
EUVD