CVE
- Id
- 85247
- CVE No.
- CVE-2015-7970
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- The p2m_pod_emergency_sweep function in arch/x86/mm/p2m-pod.c in Xen 3.4.x, 3.5.x, and 3.6.x is not preemptible, which allows local x86 HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and possibly reboot) via crafted memory contents that triggers a "time-consuming linear scan," related to Populate-on-Demand.
- Phase
- Assigned (20151023)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments