CVE-2015-2150 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2150?

CVE-2015-2150 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Mar 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Xen 3.3.x through 4.5.x and the Linux kernel through 3.19.1 do not properly restrict access to PCI command registers, which might allow local guest OS 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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2150?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Ubuntu Ubuntu, Xen Xen.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2150?

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-2015-2150 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2150 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2150, GHSA-w7jv-fgrf-v497, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2150.