CVE-2015-8104 (GCVE-0-2015-8104)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-11-16 00:00
Modified
2025-04-23 15:40
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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 #DB (aka Debug) exceptions, related to svm.c.
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