suse · CVE-2015-8551

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:35:31 UTC Updated: 2025-05-18 00:04:15 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2015-8551 severity moderate: SUSE including 130 source package names (kernel-bigsmp-3.0.101-0.47.79.1, kernel-bigsmp-base-3.0.101-0.47.79.1, …), 324 product×package rows across 41 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, … (41 product lines)): Fixed 245, Known Not Affected 79.

Description:

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 hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_* operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks."

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