CVE - CVE-2015-7969

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-7969	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
Multiple memory leaks in Xen 4.0 through 4.6.x allow local guest administrators or domains with certain permission to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of "teardowns" of domains with the vcpu pointer array allocated using the (1) XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus hypercall or the xenoprofile state vcpu pointer array allocated using the (2) XENOPROF_get_buffer or (3) XENOPROF_set_passive hypercall.
References
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BID:77364 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77364 CONFIRM:http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202404 CONFIRM:http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-149.html CONFIRM:http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-151.html DEBIAN:DSA-3414 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414 FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-242be2c240 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-6f6b79efe2 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-a931b02be2 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html GENTOO:GLSA-201604-03 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 SECTRACK:1034033 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034033 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:1965 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20151023	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20151023)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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