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CVE-2015-7969 Detail

Description

Multiple memory leaks in Xen 4.0 through 4.6.x allow local guest administrators or domains with certain permission to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of "teardowns" of domains with the vcpu pointer array allocated using the (1) XEN_DOMCTL_max_vcpus hypercall or the xenoprofile state vcpu pointer array allocated using the (2) XENOPROF_get_buffer or (3) XENOPROF_set_passive hypercall.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html CVE, MITRE
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202404 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77364 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034033 CVE, MITRE
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-149.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-151.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-7969
NVD Published Date:
10/30/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
MITRE