CVE-2015-2752

medium

Published 2015-04-01 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.9

Description

The XEN_DOMCTL_memory_mapping hypercall in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x, when using a PCI passthrough device, is not preemptible, which allows local x86 HVM domain users to cause a denial of service (host CPU consumption) via a crafted request to the device model (qemu-dm).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Fedora Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
21	Affected	—
20	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.4.1-9`
sid	Fixed	`4.4.1-9`
forky	Fixed	`4.4.1-9`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.4.1-9`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.4.1-9`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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