CVE-2015-7971
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7971
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-7971.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-7971
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2015-10-30T15:59:07Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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) HYPERCALLxenoprofop hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the doxenoprofop function in common/xenoprof.c, or (2) HYPERVISORxenpmuop hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the doxenpmuop function in arch/x86/cpu/vpmu.c.
- References
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-152.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202404
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77363
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034035