Use After Free Affecting xen package, versions [4.4.0,4.4.4]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383759
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7154  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the FIFO event channel code in Xen 4.4.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information via an invalid guest frame number.

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