CVE-2015-7969
EPSS 0.06%
Description
Multiple memory leaks in Xen 4.0 through 4.6.x allow local guest administrators or domains with certain permission to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of "teardowns" of domains with the vcpu pointer array allocated using the (1) XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus hypercall or the xenoprofile state vcpu pointer array allocated using the (2) XENOPROF_get_buffer or (3) XENOPROF_set_passive hypercall.
How to fix CVE-2015-7969
To remediate CVE-2015-7969, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/xen—upgrade to 4.6.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2015-7969 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.6.0-1