CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6258

8.8 HIGH Published 2016-08-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-08-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-284

Description

The PV pagetable code in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges by leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries.

Affected configurations

• xen xen 3.4.0 • xen xen 3.4.2 • xen xen 3.4.3 • xen xen 3.4.4 • xen xen 4.0.0 • xen xen 4.0.1 • 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 4.2.0 • xen xen 4.2.1 • xen xen 4.2.2 • xen xen 4.2.3 • xen xen 4.3.0 • xen xen 4.3.1 • xen xen 4.4.0 • xen xen 4.4.1 • xen xen 4.5.0 • xen xen 4.6.0 • xen xen 4.6.1 • xen xen 4.6.3 • xen xen 4.7.0 • citrix xenserver 6.0 • citrix xenserver 6.0.2 • citrix xenserver 6.1 • citrix xenserver 6.2.0 • citrix xenserver 6.5.0 • citrix xenserver 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References