Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting xen package, versions [4.2.0,4.6.0-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383863
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Jun 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jun 2015

CVE-2015-4163  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.6.0-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref in Xen 4.2 through 4.5 does not check the grant table operation version, which allows local guest domains to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a hypercall without a GNTTABOP_setup_table or GNTTABOP_set_version.

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CVSS Base Scores

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