Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xen package, versions [3.2.0,4.5.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2384015
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Mar 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-2151  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The x86 emulator in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x does not properly ignore segment overrides for instructions with register operands, which allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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