CVE-2015-8104

critical
Published 2015-11-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
10.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
4.7
VIR risk
10.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
98%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8104

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cbdb967af3d54993f5814f1cee0ed311a055377d

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278496

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-156.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cbdb967af3d54993f5814f1cee0ed311a055377d

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.2.6-2
debian debianbullseyefixed4.2.6-2
debian debianforkyfixed4.2.6-2
debian debiansidfixed4.2.6-2
debian debiantrixiefixed4.2.6-2
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
linux linux-kernelaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
oraclevm_virtualbox{"startIncluding":"4.0.0","endIncluding":"4.0.34"}

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.