| Name | CVE-2015-8338 |
| Description | Xen 4.6.x and earlier does not properly enforce limits on page order inputs for the (1) XENMEM_increase_reservation, (2) XENMEM_populate_physmap, (3) XENMEM_exchange, and possibly other HYPERVISOR_memory_op suboperations, which allows ARM guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, guest reboot, or watchdog timeout and host reboot) and possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3633-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 823620 |
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+94-ge49571868d-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 4.17.1+2-gb773c48e36-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 4.17.2-1 | 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 | (not affected) | |||
| xen | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
| xen | source | jessie | 4.4.1-9+deb8u6 | DSA-3633-1 | ||
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.8.0~rc3-1 | 823620 |
[wheezy] - xen <not-affected> (Only affects Xen on arm)
[squeeze] - xen <not-affected> (Only affects Xen on arm)
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-158.html