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CVE-2015-8552

Published: 17 December 2015

The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to generate a continuous stream of WARN messages and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks."

From the Ubuntu Security Team

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk discovered the Xen PCI backend driver does not perform sanity checks on the device's state. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service by flooding the logging system with WARN() messages causing the initial domain to exhaust disk space.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.4

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
linux
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (3.2.0-97.137)
trusty
Released (3.13.0-74.118)
vivid
Released (3.19.0-42.48)
wily
Released (4.2.0-22.27)
xenial Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-2.16)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-21.37)
zesty Not vulnerable
(4.8.0-22.24)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
Patches:
Introduced by

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

Fixed by 56441f3c8e5bd45aab10dd9f8c505dd4bec03b0d
Introduced by

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

Fixed by 5e0ce1455c09dd61d029b8ad45d82e1ac0b6c4c9
Introduced by

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

Fixed by a396f3a210c3a61e94d6b87ec05a75d0be2a60d0
Introduced by

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

Fixed by 7cfb905b9638982862f0331b36ccaaca5d383b49
Introduced by

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

Fixed by 408fb0e5aa7fda0059db282ff58c3b2a4278baa0
linux-armadaxp
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (3.2.0-1661.85)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

This package is not directly supported by the Ubuntu Security Team
linux-aws
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-1002.2)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
xenial Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-1001.10)
yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-ec2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
linux-flo
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Ignored
(abandoned)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Does not exist

linux-fsl-imx51
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
precise Does not exist

linux-gke
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
xenial Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-1003.3)
yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-goldfish
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Ignored
(abandoned)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)
linux-grouper
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-hwe
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
xenial Not vulnerable
(4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1)
yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-hwe-edge
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
xenial Not vulnerable
(4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1)
yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-linaro-omap
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
linux-linaro-shared
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
linux-linaro-vexpress
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-lts-quantal
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

This package is not directly supported by the Ubuntu Security Team
linux-lts-raring
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-lts-saucy
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

This package is not directly supported by the Ubuntu Security Team
linux-lts-trusty
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (3.13.0-74.118~precise1)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-lts-utopic
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty
Released (3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-lts-vivid
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty
Released (3.19.0-42.48~14.04.1)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-lts-wily
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty
Released (4.2.0-22.27~14.04.1)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-lts-xenial
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-13.29~14.04.1)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-maguro
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-mako
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Ignored
(abandoned)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Does not exist

linux-manta
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored)
upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-mvl-dove
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
linux-qcm-msm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

linux-raspi2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
vivid Does not exist

wily Not vulnerable
(Xen not configured)
xenial Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-1003.4)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-1009.10)
zesty Not vulnerable
(4.8.0-1013.15)
linux-snapdragon
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)
wily Does not exist

xenial Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-1012.12)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-1012.12)
zesty Not vulnerable
(4.4.0-1029.32)
linux-ti-omap4
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (3.2.0-1476.99)
trusty Does not exist

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

yakkety Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

upstream
Released (4.4~rc6)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.4
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H