CVE-2015-7970

Publication date 30 October 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

The p2m_pod_emergency_sweep function in arch/x86/mm/p2m-pod.c in Xen 3.4.x, 3.5.x, and 3.6.x is not preemptible, which allows local x86 HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and possibly reboot) via crafted memory contents that triggers a “time-consuming linear scan,” related to Populate-on-Demand.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xen 15.10 wily
Fixed 4.5.1-0ubuntu1.1
15.04 vivid
Fixed 4.5.0-1ubuntu4.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.7