4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
Error handling in the operation may involve handing back pages to the domain. This operation may fail when in parallel the domain gets torn down. So far this failure unconditionally resulted in the host being brought down due to an internal error being assumed. This is CVE-2015-8339.
Furthermore error handling so far wrongly included the release of a lock. That lock, however, was either not acquired or already released on all paths leading to the error handling sequence. This is CVE-2015-8340.
A malicious guest administrator may be able to deny service by crashing the host or causing a deadlock.
All Xen versions from at least 3.2 onwards are vulnerable. Older versions have not been inspected.