CVE-2015-8552

MEDIUM

Xen <4.3.x - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to generate a continuous stream of WARN messages and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks."

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 37.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-20
Status draft

Affected Products (43)

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... and 28 more

Timeline

Published Apr 13, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026