CVE-2015-8104 is a critical denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel (through 4.2.6) and Xen (4.3.x through 4.6.x). A guest OS user can trigger a host OS panic or hang by generating numerous Debug exceptions. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a critical severity with network accessibility, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.