CVE-2015-8104
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 10.0 Critical
- Published
- Nov 16, 2015
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Reserved
- Nov 9, 2015
Description
The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #DB (aka Debug) exceptions, related to svm.c.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 10.0 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- RHSA-2015:2636vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- USN-2841-2vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2015-f150b2a8c8vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2015:2350vendor-advisory
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278496
- DSA-3454vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html
- RHSA-2015:2645vendor-advisory
- USN-2840-1vendor-advisory
- 77524vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cbdb967af3d54993f5814f1cee0ed311a055377d
- openSUSE-SU-2015:2250vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- [oss-security] 20151110 CVE-2015-8104 kernel: kvm: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exceptionmailing-list
- USN-2843-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2015:2194vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html
- USN-2844-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2015:2232vendor-advisory
- USN-2842-2vendor-advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-156.html
- SUSE-SU-2016:0354vendor-advisory
- USN-2843-2vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2015-668d213dc3vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2015:2339vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2015:2108vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- USN-2842-1vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2015-394835a3f6vendor-advisory
- DSA-3414vendor-advisory
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202583
- 1034105vdb-entry
- 91787vdb-entry
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074vendor-advisory
- USN-2841-1vendor-advisory
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX203879
- DSA-3426vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cbdb967af3d54993f5814f1cee0ed311a055377d
- RHSA-2016:0046vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1008vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20231010 Xen Security Advisory 444 v3 (CVE-2023-34327,CVE-2023-34328) - x86/AMD: Debug Mask handlingmailing-list
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