CVE-2015-0268

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-02-12
Bugzilla:
1187148: CVE-2015-0268 xen: GICD_SGIR is not properly emulated on ARM architecture (XSA-117)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The vgic_v2_to_sgi function in arch/arm/vgic-v2.c in Xen 4.5.x, when running on ARM hardware with general interrupt controller (GIC) version 2, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) by writing an invalid value to the GICD.SGIR register.

Find out more about CVE-2015-0268 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of xen as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

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