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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-5307 Detail

Description

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #AC (aka Alignment Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172187.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172300.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172435.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00039.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00053.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2636.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2645.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0046.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202583 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3396 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3454 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/10/6 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77528 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034105 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2800-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2801-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2802-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2803-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2804-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2805-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2806-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2807-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-156.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277172 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

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-2015-5307
NVD Published Date:
11/16/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.