CVE
- Id
- 85248
- CVE No.
- CVE-2015-7971
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- 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.
- Phase
- Assigned (20151023)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments