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CVE-2015-7814

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-10-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Race condition in the relinquish_memory function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local domains with partial management control to cause a denial of service (host crash) via vectors involving the destruction of a domain and using XENMEM_decrease_reservation to reduce the memory of the domain.

Affected products

• xen: through 4.6.0

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034030
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-147.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3414
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034030

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