CVE-2016-7154 (GCVE-0-2016-7154)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-21 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:50
VLAI
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the FIFO event channel code in Xen 4.4.x allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information via an invalid guest frame number.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-09-08 00:00
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