CVE-2015-7814

Xen < 4.6.0 - Denial of Service via Race Condition in relinquish_memory

Title source: llm

Description

Race condition in the relinquish_memory function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local domains with partial management control to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving the destruction of a domain and using XENMEM_decrease_reservation to reduce the memory of the domain.

References (7)

Core 7

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034030

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-147.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Scores

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 17.3%

Details

CWE

CWE-119 CWE-362

Status published

Products (1)

xen/xen < 4.6.0

Published Oct 30, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026