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CVE-2015-8552

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Date: April 13, 2016

The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to generate a continuous stream of WARN messages and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks."

Language: C

Severity Score

4.4

Related Resources (17)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79546

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8552

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html

Url: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-157.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8552

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8552

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8552

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034480

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-8552

Severity Score

4.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	1.7
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	SINGLE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2015-8552

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Date: April 13, 2016

Language: C

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Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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