VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-7094
Buffer overflow in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local x86 HVM guest OS administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a denial of service via a pagetable update.
MEDIUM 4.1EPSS 0.39%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Buffer overflow in Xen 4.7.x and earlier allows local x86 HVM guest OS administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a denial of service via a pagetable update.
- CVSS 3.0
- 4.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.39% probability · 33th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- xen/xen
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX216071Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3663
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92864Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036753Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-187.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa187-0001-x86-shadow-Avoid-overflowing-sh_ctxt-seg_reg.patchPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-09
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX216071Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3663
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92864Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036753Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-187.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/xsa187-0001-x86-shadow-Avoid-overflowing-sh_ctxt-seg_reg.patchPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-09
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.