vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-1571): xen vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 22, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The paging_invlpg function in include/asm-x86/paging.h in Xen 3.3.x through 4.6.x, when using shadow mode paging or nested virtualization is enabled, allows local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) via a non-canonical guest address in an INVVPID instruction, which triggers a hypervisor bug check.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xen
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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