CVE - CVE-2015-7971

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-7971	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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BID:77363 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77363 CONFIRM:http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202404 CONFIRM:http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-152.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:1034035 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034035 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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