CVE-2015-7972

Name	CVE-2015-7972
Description	The (1) libxl_set_memory_target function in tools/libxl/libxl.c and (2) libxl__build_post function in tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c in Xen 3.4.x through 4.6.x do not properly calculate the balloon size when using the populate-on-demand (PoD) system, which allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via unspecified vectors related to "heavy memory pressure."
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-479-1, DSA-3414-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	buster, buster (security)	4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	4.14.5+86-g1c354767d5-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	4.17.0+46-gaaf74a532c-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
xen	source	squeeze	(unfixed)	end-of-life
xen	source	wheezy	4.1.6.1-1+deb7u1		DLA-479-1
xen	source	jessie	4.4.1-9+deb8u3		DSA-3414-1
xen	source	(unstable)	4.6.0-1

Notes

[wheezy] - xen <no-dsa> (Minor issue, xl not used in wheezy)
[squeeze] - xen <end-of-life> (not supported in squeeze-lts)
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-153.html