Vulnerability in Xen

CVE-2015-7971

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: 0.004 (34.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Xen — versions 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References