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CVE-2015-7814

Race condition in the relinquish_memory function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local domains with

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7 EPSS 0.00055
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Weakness Classification

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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Affected Products & Versions

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xen<= 4.6.0
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Scoring & Timeline

4.7
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published to NVD30 Oct 2015 · 03:59 PM
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References & Sources

7
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034030
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-147.htmlVendor Advisory
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