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Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: two vulnerabilities of pciback
January 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of Linux pciback of
Xen.
Impacted products: Linux, Ubuntu.
Severity: 1/4.
Creation date: 17/12/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Several vulnerabilities were announced in Linux pciback.
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced in MSI
Code, in order to trigger a denial of service. [severity:1/4;
CVE-2015-8551]
An attacker can trigger an error with XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi, in
order to trigger a denial of service. [severity:1/4; CVE-2015-8552]
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http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Linux-kernel-two-vulnerabilities-of-pciback-18552
