vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-5242): xen vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 7, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Jan 23, 2025

Description

The p2m_teardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xen
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