Denial of Service Vulnerability in KVM and Xen Hypervisors

CVE-2015-5307 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #AC (aka Alignment Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c.

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