| Name | CVE-2015-7812 |
| Description | The hypercall_create_continuation function in arch/arm/domain.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a preemptible hypercall to the multicall interface. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3414-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xen (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch | 4.8.5.final+shim4.10.4-1+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster | 4.11.4+37-g3263f257ca-1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.11.4+57-g41a822c392-2 | fixed |
| bullseye, sid | 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| xen | source | squeeze | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| xen | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| xen | source | jessie | 4.4.1-9+deb8u3 | | DSA-3414-1 | |
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.6.0-1 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - xen <not-affected> (arm not yet supported)
[squeeze] - xen <end-of-life> (not supported in squeeze-lts)
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-145.html