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CVE-2016-7094

medium

Description

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.

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036753

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92864

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX216071

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-09

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa187-0001-x86-shadow-Avoid-overflowing-sh_ctxt-seg_reg.patch

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-187.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3663

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-21

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.1

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0007