Candidate: CVE-2015-4164
PublicDate: 2015-06-15 15:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4164
 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-136.html
Description:
 The compat_iret function in Xen 3.1 through 4.5 iterates the wrong way
 through a loop, which allows local 32-bit PV guest administrators to cause
 a denial of service (large loop and system hang) via a hypercall_iret call
 with EFLAGS.VM set.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_xen:
Tags_xen: universe-binary
upstream_xen: needs-triage
precise_xen: released (4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.6)
trusty_xen: released (4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2)
trusty/esm_xen: DNE (trusty was released [4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2])
utopic_xen: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid_xen: released (4.5.0-1ubuntu4.2)
wily_xen: not-affected (4.5.1-0ubuntu1)
devel_xen: not-affected (4.5.1-0ubuntu1)