CVE-2015-8338 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2015-8338 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.20% · 41.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.20%

41.9th percentile

Affected Products

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

Timeline

Dec 17, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8338 third-party-advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-158.html third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8338 third-party-advisory

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