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CVE-2020-15564

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing Arm guest OS users to cause a hypervisor crash because of a missing alignment check in VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info. The hypercall VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info is used by a guest to register a shared region with the hypervisor. The region will be mapped into Xen address space so it can be directly accessed. On Arm, the region is accessed with…

Severity
Medium 6.5
Published
7 Jul 2020
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
XenServers and applications · cpe:o:xen:xen
  • From 4.8.0 up to 4.13.1

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15564
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15564