Security Features Affecting xen package, versions [4.4.0,4.6.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2384017
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7812  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Features. The hypercall_create_continuation function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a preemptible hypercall to the multicall interface.

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