XenSource Xen Alignment Check resource management

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A vulnerability was found in XenSource Xen (Virtualization Software) (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Alignment Check Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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 #AC (aka Alignment Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c.

The weakness was presented 11/10/2015 as XSA-156 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is available at xenbits.xen.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-5307 since 07/01/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 87012 (Citrix XenServer Multiple Infinite Loop Guest-to-Host DoS (CTX202583)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 169069 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2074-1)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (107920), Tenable (87012), SecurityFocus (BID 77528†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-54373†). See VDB-75137, VDB-77323, VDB-78716 and VDB-79119 for similar entries.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 87012
Nessus Name: Citrix XenServer Multiple Infinite Loop Guest-to-Host DoS (CTX202583)
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OpenVAS ID: 703396
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 3396-1 (linux - security update)
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Patch: git.kernel.org

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Vendor: citrix.com

Advisory: XSA-156
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-5307 (🔍)
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X-Force: 107920 - Xen alignment check denial of service
SecurityFocus: 77528
SecurityTracker: 1034105
Vulnerability Center: 54373 - Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Local DoS via CPU Chipsets - CVE-2015-5307, Medium

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Created: 11/11/2015 09:55 AM
Updated: 06/26/2022 02:26 PM
Changes: 11/11/2015 09:55 AM (61), 04/12/2018 05:07 PM (15), 06/26/2022 02:26 PM (3)
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