Out-of-Bounds Affecting xen package, versions [,4.7.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383798
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7094  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.7.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Buffer overflow in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local x86 HVM guest OS administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a denial of service via a pagetable update.

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