CVE-2015-1563 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1563?

CVE-2015-1563 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 9 Feb 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1563?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1563?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-1563 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1563 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1563, GHSA-6cg5-9hmh-42hc, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1563.