CVE-2016-6259

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 2, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 20, 2016

Description

Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

92130vdb-entry
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX214954
1036447vdb-entry
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa183-unstable.patch
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-183.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa183-4.6.patch

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