Data Handling in Xen - CVE-2015-7971
Published: October 30, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40618
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7971
CWE-ID: CWE-19
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Xen 3.2.x through 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.
Affected software
Xen
How to mitigate CVE-2015-7971
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202404
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77363
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034035
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-152.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03