Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting xen package, versions [4.4.0,4.6.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383680
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-5242  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion.

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