PT-2016-1711

CVE-2016-3960

Published

2016-04-19

Updated

2017-01-09

Description by

CVSS 3.1

8.8

High

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by an integer overflow in the x86 shadow pagetable code. This can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host crash, or possibly gain privileges by shadowing a superpage mapping.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Impacts

Researchers

Ling Liu

Yihan Lian

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Related identifiers

CVE-2016-3960