CVE-2015-8551

The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_* operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks."

• CWE-476

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79546Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034480Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-157.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79546Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034480Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-157.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03Third Party Advisory

Published

Apr 13, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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