CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2271

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-02-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-02-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• xen xen 4.6.0 • xen xen 4.6.1

References