CVE-2015-7813: xen Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2015-7813 is a low (CVSS 2.1) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in xen. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 2.1, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2Timeline
- 30-10-2015PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Xen 4.4.x, 4.5.x, and 4.6.x does not limit the number of printk console messages when reporting unimplemented hypercalls, which allows local guests to cause a denial of service via a sequence of (1) HYPERVISOR_physdev_op hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the do_physdev_op function in arch/arm/physdev.c, or (2) HYPERVISOR_hvm_op hypercalls, which are not properly handled in the do_hvm_op function in arch/arm/hvm.c.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.39%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
33%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.39% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- xen< 4.6.0-1
Ubuntu1 product
- xen< 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
Xen1 product
- xen4.4.0 | 4.4.0:rc1 | 4.4.1 | 4.5.0 | 4.5.1 | 4.6.0
3 vendors · 3 products
References
10 links- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA