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CVE-2015-7971

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7971 is a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting Xen versions 3.2.x through 4.6.x. It allows local guest systems to crash the hypervisor by flooding it with excessive printk console messages through crafted xenoprof_op or xenpmu_op hypercalls. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial availability loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, with only one mention and one media article identified.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xen

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-7971Moderate

xen: Some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate limiting on x86

Oct 29, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171082.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171185.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171249.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00063.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201604-03
support.citrix.com / article/CTX202404
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3414
securityfocus.com / bid/77363
securitytracker.com / id/1034035
xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-152.html
Vendor Advisory