CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4962
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The libxl device-handling in Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local OS guest administrators to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or management facility confusion) or gain host OS privileges by manipulating information in guest controlled areas of xenstore.
Affected configurations
• oracle vm server 3.3
• oracle vm server 3.4
• xen xen 4.3.0
• xen xen 4.3.1
• xen xen 4.3.2
• xen xen 4.3.3
• xen xen 4.3.4
• xen xen 4.4.0
• xen xen 4.4.1
• xen xen 4.4.2
• xen xen 4.4.3
• xen xen 4.4.4
• xen xen 4.5.0
• xen xen 4.5.1
• xen xen 4.5.2
• xen xen 4.5.3
• xen xen 4.6.0
• xen xen 4.6.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91006 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036023 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-175.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3633 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91006 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036023 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-175.html Vendor Advisory