CVE-2015-7971 | Mend Vulnerability Database

Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2015-7971

CVE-2015-7971

Published:October 30, 2015

Updated:May 17, 2026

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.

Related Resources (11)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7971

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

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

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77363

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202404

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034035

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-152.html

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

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html