CVE-2016-2271

medium

Description

VMX in Xen 4.6.x and earlier, when using an Intel or Cyrix CPU, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via vectors related to a non-canonical RIP.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177990.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178518.html

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX209443

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035043

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-170.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-02-19

Updated: 2017-07-01

Type: NVD-CWE-Other

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM