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CVE-2015-8339

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-01-06 xen-kernel -- XENMEM_exchange error handling issues

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2015-8339
Phase Assigned(20151125)

Description

The memory_exchange function in common/memory.c in Xen 3.2.x through 4.6.x does not properly hand back pages to a domain, which might allow guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified vectors related to domain teardown.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX203451
CONFIRM http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-159.html