Improper Access Control Affecting xen package, versions [3.4.0,4.7.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383999
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-6258  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The PV pagetable code in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges by leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries.

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