github - ghsa-prj4-495w-f4qv

ghsa-prj4-495w-f4qv

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 03:50

Modified

2022-05-17 03:50

Severity ?

6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check.

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CVE-2016-6259 (GCVE-0-2016-6259)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-08-02 16:00

Modified

2024-08-06 01:22

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

Xen 4.5.x through 4.7.x do not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check.

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92130	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX214954	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036447	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
	http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa183-unstable.patch	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-183.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa183-4.6.patch	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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