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CVE-2015-8339 json

The memory_exchange function in common/memory.c in Xen 3.2.x through 4.6.x does not properly hand back pages to a domain, which might allow…

published 2015-12-17 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-8223

cvss
4.7
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The memory_exchange function in common/memory.c in Xen 3.2.x through 4.6.x does not properly hand back pages to a domain, which might allow guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) via unspecified vectors related to domain teardown.

Patch / fix

  • xen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.8.0~rc3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8339

  • xen Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8339

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLED 11 SP4 +1 more 4.4.3_06-29.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +1 more 4.4.3_06-22.15.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 +1 more 4.5.2_02-4.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP3-TERADATA, SLES 11 SP3 +2 more 4.2.5_18-21.1
  • xen SLES 11 SP2-LTSS 4.1.6_08-23.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:2338-1SUSE-SU-2015:2328-1SUSE-SU-2015:2324-1SUSE-SU-2015:2326-1SUSE-SU-2015:2306-1

  • xen openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.7.0_12-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-8339 updated cvss 6.2

xen: XENMEM_exchange error handling may cause DoS to host

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xen
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.7 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-19 Data Processing Errors

References

Sources

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