PT-2016-6194

CVE-2016-4962

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Published

2016-06-07

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Updated

2017-01-09

Description by

CVSS 2.0
6.8
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.6.x and earlier
Description The issue allows local OS guest administrators to cause a denial of service or gain host OS privileges by manipulating information in guest-controlled areas of xenstore. This can lead to resource consumption or management facility confusion.
Recommendations For Xen versions 4.6.x and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
DSA-3633-1
MGASA-2017-0012
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2494-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2497-1
SUSE-SU-2016:2093-1
SUSE-SU-2016:2100-1
SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1
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