Input validation error in Fedora and Xen - CVE-2015-2752

 

Input validation error in Fedora and Xen - CVE-2015-2752

Published: April 1, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40851
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2752
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Fedoraproject
Xen Project
Affected software:
Fedora
Xen

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The XEN_DOMCTL_memory_mapping hypercall in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x, when using a PCI passthrough device, is not preemptible, which allows local x86 HVM domain users to cause a denial of service (host CPU consumption) via a crafted request to the device model (qemu-dm).


How to mitigate CVE-2015-2752

Install update from vendor's website.

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