Candidate: CVE-2015-7972
PublicDate: 2015-10-30 15:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7972
 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-153.html
Description:
 The (1) libxl_set_memory_target function in tools/libxl/libxl.c and (2)
 libxl__build_post function in tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c in Xen 3.4.x through
 4.6.x do not properly calculate the balloon size when using the
 populate-on-demand (PoD) system, which allows local HVM guest users to
 cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors related to
 "heavy memory pressure."
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: low
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Patches_xen:
Tags_xen: universe-binary
upstream_xen: needs-triage
precise_xen: released (4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.7)
trusty_xen: released (4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3)
trusty/esm_xen: DNE (trusty was released [4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3])
vivid_xen: released (4.5.0-1ubuntu4.3)
wily_xen: released (4.5.1-0ubuntu1.1)
devel_xen: released (4.5.1-0ubuntu2)