CVE-2015-4164
xen xen: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The compat_iret function in Xen 3.1 through 4.5 iterates the wrong way through a loop, which allows local 32-bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service (large loop and system hang) via a hypercall_iret call with EFLAGS.VM set.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- xen:xen
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00014.html