SB2015042103 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in xen (Alpine package)
Published: April 21, 2015
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015042103
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2756)
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
QEMU, as used in Xen 3.3.x through 4.5.x, does not properly restrict access to PCI command registers, which might allow local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (non-maskable interrupt and host crash) by disabling the (1) memory or (2) I/O decoding for a PCI Express device and then accessing the device, which triggers an Unsupported Request (UR) response.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.