CVE-2015-2151

El emulador x86 en Xen 3.2.x hasta 4.5.x no ignora correctamente las anulaciones de segmentos para instrucciones con operandos del registro, lo que permite a usuarios locales invitados obtener información sensible, causar una denegación de servicio (corrupción de memoria), o posiblemente ejecutar código arbitrario a través de vectores no especificados.

It was found that the Xen hypervisor x86 CPU emulator implementation did not correctly handle certain instructions with segment overrides, potentially resulting in a memory corruption. A malicious guest user could use this flaw to read arbitrary data relating to other guests, cause a denial of service on the host, or potentially escalate their privileges on the host.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Frame Buffer device implementation mapped kernel memory to user space via the mmap syscall. A local user able to access a frame buffer device file could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. It was found that the Xen hypervisor x86 CPU emulator implementation did not correctly handle certain instructions with segment overrides, potentially resulting in a memory corruption. A malicious guest user could use this flaw to read arbitrary data relating to other guests, cause a denial of service on the host, or potentially escalate their privileges on the host.