CVE-2015-8552
MEDIUMXen <4.3.x - DoS
Title source: llmDescription
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."
References (12)
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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Timeline
Published
Apr 13, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026