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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1570 (CVE-2016-1570)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2016-01-22 15:59 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:37 – Source website

Details

The PV superpage functionality in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 3.4.0, 3.4.1, and 4.1.x through 4.6.x allows local PV guests to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service, gain privileges, or have unspecified other impact via a crafted page identifier (MFN) to the (1) MMUEXT_MARK_SUPER or (2) MMUEXT_UNMARK_SUPER sub-op in the HYPERVISOR_mmuext_op hypercall or (3) unknown vectors related to page table updates.

Severity

8.5 (High)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1570	REPORT
	http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-167.html	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1570	REPORT

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CVE-2016-1570 (GCVE-0-2016-1570)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-22 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:02

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3519	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034744	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-167.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2016-01-20 00:00

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