CVE-2015-7971 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2015-7971 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.07% · 21.2th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.07%

21.2th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	xen	0, 4.3.0-1ubuntu1, 4.3.0-1ubuntu2

Timeline

Oct 30, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7971 third-party-advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-152.html third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7971 third-party-advisory

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