CVE-2015-1563
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged.
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.
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
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedora | 21 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.4.1-7 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.4.1-7 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.4.1-7 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.4.1-7 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.4.1-7 |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152776.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72766
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031663
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-118.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1563
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.