CVE-2015-8341

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The libxl toolstack library in Xen 4.1.x through 4.6.x does not properly release mappings of files used as kernels and initial ramdisks when managing multiple domains in the same process, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) by starting domains.

Affected products

xen: 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5 (+21)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034389
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-160.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034389
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-160.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

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