The p2m_pod_emergency_sweep function in arch/x86/mm/p2m-pod.c in Xen 3.4.x, 3.5.x, and 3.6.x is not preemptible, which allows local x86 HVM guest administrators to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and possibly reboot) via crafted memory contents that triggers a "time-consuming linear scan," related to Populate-on-Demand.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2015-10-30T15:00:00
Updated: 2017-06-30T16:57:01
Reserved: 2015-10-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-7970
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2015-10-30T15:59:06.967
Modified: 2017-07-01T01:29:23.827
Link: CVE-2015-7970
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