Improper Input Validation Affecting xen package, versions [,4.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383815
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jan 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jan 2014

CVE-2011-1166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. Xen, possibly before 4.0.2, allows local 64-bit PV guests to cause a denial of service (host crash) by specifying user mode execution without user-mode pagetables.

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