CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4963
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
The libxl device-handling in Xen through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (management tool confusion) by manipulating information in the backend directories in xenstore.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 4.0.0
• xen xen 4.0.1
• xen xen 4.0.2
• xen xen 4.0.3
• xen xen 4.0.4
• xen xen 4.1.0
• xen xen 4.1.1
• xen xen 4.1.2
• xen xen 4.1.3
• xen xen 4.1.4
• xen xen 4.1.5
• xen xen 4.1.6
• xen xen 4.1.6.1
• xen xen 4.2.0
• xen xen 4.2.1
• xen xen 4.2.2
• xen xen 4.2.3
• xen xen 4.2.4
• xen xen 4.2.5
• 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 · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036024 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-178.html Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00006.html lists.debian.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036024 www.securitytracker.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-178.html Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00006.html lists.debian.org