CVE-2015-8338

Description

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.

References

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-158.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034390

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78920

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3