Candidate: CVE-2015-8340
PublicDate: 2015-12-17 19:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8340
 http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-159.html
Description:
 The memory_exchange function in common/memory.c in Xen 3.2.x through 4.6.x
 does not properly release locks, which might allow guest OS administrators
 to cause a denial of service (deadlock or host crash) via unspecified
 vectors, related to XENMEM_exchange error handling.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Julien Grall and Jan Beulich
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_xen:
 upstream: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa159.patch
Tags_xen: universe-binary
upstream_xen: needed
precise_xen: released (4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.8)
trusty_xen: released (4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4)
trusty/esm_xen: DNE (trusty was released [4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4])
vivid_xen: released (4.5.0-1ubuntu4.4)
wily_xen: released (4.5.1-0ubuntu1.2)
devel_xen: released (4.6.0-1ubuntu2)