CVE-2015-8551
Description
The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_* operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks."
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Linux kernel Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13.1 | Affected | — |
| 12 | Affected | — |
| 11 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.3.3-3 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.3.3-3 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.3.3-3 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.3.3-3 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.3.3-3 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8551.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79546
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034480
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-157.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8551
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.