CVE-2015-4163
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.9
Description
GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref in Xen 4.2 through 4.5 does not check the grant table operation version, which allows local guest domains to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a hypercall without a GNTTABOP_setup_table or GNTTABOP_set_version.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.6.0-1 |
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/msg00030.html
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201145
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3286
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75141
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032568
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-134.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX206006
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4163
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.