CVE-2015-2751 Denial of service in n/a
Remote domains with partial management control can cause a host lock denial of service in Xen hypervisors using toolstack disaggregation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-2751?
CVE-2015-2751 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 1 Apr 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Xen 4.3.x, 4.4.x, and 4.5.x, when using toolstack disaggregation, allows remote domains with partial management control to cause a denial of service (host lock) via unspecified domctl operations.
Weakness: CWE-17
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2751?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Xen Xen.
How do I fix CVE-2015-2751?
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-2015-2751 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2751 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2751, GHSA-f69q-gr6m-7j6r, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2751.