CVE-2015-7814

xen: Race between domain destruction and memory allocation decrease on ARM

Published Oct 30, 2015 CVSS 2.0 · 4.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Race condition in the relinquish_memory function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local domains with partial management control to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving the destruction of a domain and using XENMEM_decrease_reservation to reduce the memory of the domain.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3414-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-7712 Race condition in the relinquish_memory function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local domains with partial management control to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving the destruction of a domain and using XENMEM_decrease_reservation to reduce the memory of the domain.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 7:58 AM
Reserved
Oct 14, 2015, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 30, 2015, 3:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:33 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Oct 29, 2015, 12:00 AM